Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v2.c46.s3.1

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Chattopadhyaya has articulated in great detail (1976,1977,1982, 1986) what he considers to be ‘living (scientific) and what is dead (unscientific) in Indian philosophy’. According to him the Indian materialistic philosophy of the Lokāyata was systematically denigrated in India by the anti-scientific and Brāhmaṇic philosophy of the Vedānta. Prafulla Chandra Ray had earlier (1902, 1909) developed the same theme, and criticised the Brāhmaṇic tradition for introducing the pernicious caste system and the anti-reason theological stranglehold in our sub-continent.