Dear Prof Biswas
Thank you for your thoughts and do not think the claim that there was no knowledge (written or otherwise) in LMICs is true. A large part of it has been lost during the colonial process(together with people killed or famished e.g. the deliberately created Bengal Famine by Churchill https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/winston-churchill-policies... ) and continued epistemic injustice enables its sustainence.. A good read on extractivismo, theoretical colonialism, and attempts at epistemological genocide from the education sector is here https://www.clacso.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CIE_Reflecting-on-Extr... (free to read)
Dr. Soumyadeep Bhaumik
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