This smells exactly like the sort of stuff you'd read in a nationalist-revised history textbook. Hindu Arabic is a fine way to describe it, since, as others have mentioned, it's exactly the Arabic-writing Persians who transmitted the idea to the West. I think this naming is just as permissible as referring to the Latin alphabet as the English alphabet, which is what you just did ;)
Also, the word "firangi" means foreigner in Hindi, but it also means "Frankish person". Should Englishmen in India be upset that they are being grouped with the French?
Lol at anything being nationalist because people want others to know the truth. Comparing something so fundamental as the discovery of the numerical system to a word in the English dictionary is comparing two very different things
Also, the word "firangi" means foreigner in Hindi, but it also means "Frankish person". Should Englishmen in India be upset that they are being grouped with the French?