Cultural exchange

Published on 26th November, 2022, in Economic Times. Nationalists in India and China love the idea that their culture influenced the world, but hate the idea that their culture was influenced by the world. While the Chinese preferred isolating themselves materially, with walls, Indians preferred isolating themselves psychologically using the caste mindset. Nevertheless, the two great civilisations have received many ideas from each other. We know how Buddhism spread from India to China. But we rarely discuss how steam and mercury technologies from China may have influenced Indian cooking and Indian alchemy. Indirect contact between India and China is over 5000 years old indicated by ..