Sorry, but how is this flamebait ? I've given sources, and academic citations (from publishers like OUP and SUNY press). I even mention how such false knowledge affects not just Europeans view of India, but the Indian view of India.
HN readers come here for intellectual curiosity: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. There's no such curiosity in reciting pre-existing agendas about who's defaming whose nation excessively or insufficiently. That already is always off topic here. Worse, it provokes others into stepping further into the inner circles of hell. We already saw that below.