Salam's work was based on an imaginative synthesis of mathematical structures. In this style he followed his mentor Paul Dirac. But he was also interested in mysticism and he took his religion very seriously.
In the words of my friend, the anthropologist and philosopher David Napier, "Identity survives at a more dangerous periphery where it is contested, challenged, earned, and negotiated." It is the same with human society
European scholars, reflecting racist attitudes of the 19th century, saw their own culture as masculine, rational, and scientific while they viewed India as feminine, mystical, and irrational.
The Macaulayite education system, put in place by the British, almost succeeded in erasing the collective Indian memory of vital, progressive scientific, industrial and social processes.
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