"They [the English] forget that at this moment there still exists [in India] a body of literature and science which might well be the nucleus of a new civilisation, though every trace of Christian and Mohammedan civilization were blotted out of existence."
— Augustus De Morgan

January 1, 1970

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De Morgan, Augustus. ‘Preface’ to A Treatise on Problems of Maxima and Minima, solved by Algebra, by Ram Chundra. Published under the superintendence of Augustus De Morgan. London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1859.quoted in : Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Prakashan Private Limited, 2022 ISBN 9798885750189