🇮🇳INDIANS vs 🇬🇧BRITISH (Narendra Modi's silent surrender?) Brahmagupta (628 CE), Bhāskara II (≈1150 CE), and Kṛṣṇa Daivajña (≈1575 CE) all described negative numbers by oppositeness relative to positive numbers. Then, Mahīdhara (1635 CE), Rāmakṛṣṇa Daivajña (1687 CE) continued the symmetric Indian tradition of positives and negatives as equal-and-opposite quantities. It's natural! If right is positive, left is negative. They’re equal & opposite. Turn around 180°, left becomes right, negative becomes positive, & vice-versa! Time has opposites as well. If 100 BCE is negative, 100 CE is positive. Owning money (an asset) is positive. Owing money (a debt) is negative. As opposites one person's debt is another person's asset. In physics, every action has an equal and opposite reaction and any quantity of matter or energy less than zero is impossible. In direction, time, wealth, physics, (& reality) negatives are just the equal-and-opposite partner of positives. WHAT HAPPENED? Indian Knowledge Systems (#IKS) came under attack with the growing power of the 🇬🇧 British East India Company after the Battle of Plassey (1757) and the formal establishment of the British Raj in 1858. The nonsense notion negative numbers are "less than zero" entered India through British colonial textbooks printed in the 1820s, through the Calcutta School-Book Society, the Baptist Mission Press, the College of Fort William in Calcutta, and the Bombay Native Education Society. The forced introduction of British colonial textbooks marked the historical turning point where India's own intuitive, (empirical via astronomy) symmetric, zero-based model of positive and negative quantities was replaced in schools by the British nonsense of numbers "less than zero". 😢 British Brainwashing & Gaslighting Under colonial rule and British brainwashing, leading up to Lord Macaulay’s 1835 Minute*, in which he dismissed Indian knowledge systems as obsolete, authorities suppressed India's own superior maths in classrooms. Negative numbers were no longer the symmetric equal of positive numbers. Children were forced to believe quantities could be less than nothing, that negative numbers were less than zero, and zero was no longer the smallest number! 😢 Modi's Bureacratic Barrier A return to traditional Bharatiya Maths has been promised since 2014. Yet, as much as he might call for change, has Narendra Modi's vision been broken by bureaucrats? Are children being taught Indian maths? Is #NEP2020 just a coat of saffron paint to hide the inferior maths the British forced on India? India ranked 72nd out of 73 countries in maths (beating only Kyrgyzstan). So, has Narendra Modi decolonised India's maths education? Let's check. 🇬🇧 Rule, Britannia! The aftermath of British rule is British rules remain! In a recent Class 6 Textbook "So you see we need to use a sign going for numbers less than zero. The sign that is used is the placement of a minus sign attached to the number. This indicates that numbers with a negative sign are less than zero. These are called negative numbers." In a 2026-27 Class 6 Textbook "Smaller numbers are now to the left of bigger numbers and bigger numbers are to the right of smaller numbers. So, 2 < 5; –3 < 2; and –5 < –3." ⬆️THIS IS NOT INDIAN MATHS⬆️ 5 negatives are more than 3 negatives just as a depth of 5 is deeper than a depth of 3 and a debt of ₹5 Lakh is greater than a debt of ₹3 Lakh. From 🇮🇳 628 CE on, when larger is subtracted from lesser, the answer's sign changes. In ⁻5 – ⁻3 = ⁻2 the sign of the answer is the same so ⁻3 is OBVIOUSLY not larger than ⁻5. Now look at ⁻3 – ⁻5 = ⁺2. The sign of the answer has changed, so ⁻5 is GREATER than ⁻3. Is NCERT Smarter Than Brahmagupta? अधिकम् ऊनात् व्यस्तं तदन्तरं स्यात् ऋणं धनं धनं ऋणं भवति "If a larger negative or positive is to be subtracted from a smaller negative or positive, the sign of their difference is reversed, negative becomes positive and positive negative." #SS3 Despite Narendra Modi's promises to revive Indian Knowledge Systems, NCERT still insists on forcing obsolete British Raj nonsense into the minds of innocent Indian children. In an NCERT Class 9 Textbook we read "The product of two debts is a fortune" Q. What is crazier? ₹3 debt × ₹4 debt = ₹12 debts² or ₹3 debt × ₹4 debt = ₹12 fortune? A. They are both crazy! 🤪 Why must NCERT teach nonsense before saying a debt subtracted is positive? I met Education Minister Shri Dharmendra Pradhan to hand him a petition calling for a return to India's original superior Bharatiya Maths signed by 9,417 Indians. I offered NCERT all my decades of research to help improve India's maths education yet have never received any response. Names like Baudhayana, Aryabhata & Brahmagupta appearing in NCERT textbooks is nice. Yet they will only ever be a 🇬🇧#FalseFlag if all the core ideas of maths are silently surrendered to remain colonial relics of the British Raj. An Aussie🦘(me) seems to care more about restoring India's Vishwaguru (world teacher) role in maths than any politician or bureaucrat in India. What a strange world! This has been a long post, so thank you so much for reading it. I would be honoured if you gave it a like or shared it with your followers. 🔂 Jai Hind! Jonathan J. Crabtree Melbourne Australia @jcrabtree P.S. If you care, please share because we must not let this Silent Surrender under Narendra Modi continue!