Ending Academic Imperialism: A Beginning

and stabilising Western rule. The change was possible (e.g. by Macaulay in India) just because a large section of the colonised elite had already swallowed the racist beliefs of the 18th c. CE, that only the West had innovated in science. Those racist beliefs, in turn, were based on a bad history and philosophy of science violently distorted by the religious fanaticism which overwhelmed Europe from the Crusades in the 11th c. CE until the 17th c. CE. Therefore, to end academic imperialism it is necessary to take the following four steps:

(a) Dismantle and expose the falsehoods of this Western history of science.

(b) Change also the accompanying philosophy of science.

(c) Use this to construct a new pedagogy, particularly in the hard sciences, and demonstrate its practical value, to dismantle the colonial education system.

(d) Dismantle the Western power structure at the level of higher-education and research.

The immediate action items relate to (c) and (d). An experiment is being carried out to test a new pedagogy of the calculus (“5-day course on calculus without limits”) based on a new history and philosophy of mathematics, which enables the calculus to be taught very easily, with the help of computers, even to non-math students. (The calculus is at the base of hard science.) It is planned to start a new society and web-journal for Non-Western History and Philosophy of Science (NOWHAPS), which will not permit reliance on secondary Western sources so that authors will have to assume that all such material is doubtful and untrustworthy.