"I Confess I have Taken All Knowledge to be My Province", declared Bacon in the year 1592. The Baconian Credo has ruled the Western consciousness ever since. With the introduction of western learning in India we imbibed the Baconian belief in the universality of all knowledge. In practice, however, it meant--thanks to the colonial bondage -- the universality of western knowledge only. This was particularly disabling for a country like India which had ...
