10-25-2006, 10:38 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-Bharatvarsh+Oct 24 2006, 11:49 PM-->QUOTE(Bharatvarsh @ Oct 24 2006, 11:49 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->ben ami looks like your enlightened British had dowry too not just the backward heathen Hindus.
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i never ever thought the british to be an enlightened people.
but still i would rate them over muslims anyday.
why are you trying to put words into my mouth?? "backward heathen hindus" was not a description i ever used, though i will meintain that at the time of the european arrival the version of hinduism practised in most of india was an islamic version, and nothing like vedic hinduism and was full of superstition, lots of do-s and don'ts, "sati", "bali dan' and "zhootha". indian society on the whole was in the doldrums and totally lacking intellectual output - the reason why the most prolific of all ancient civilizations produced nothing almost between 1000 a.d. to 1900 a.d.
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i never ever thought the british to be an enlightened people.
but still i would rate them over muslims anyday.
why are you trying to put words into my mouth?? "backward heathen hindus" was not a description i ever used, though i will meintain that at the time of the european arrival the version of hinduism practised in most of india was an islamic version, and nothing like vedic hinduism and was full of superstition, lots of do-s and don'ts, "sati", "bali dan' and "zhootha". indian society on the whole was in the doldrums and totally lacking intellectual output - the reason why the most prolific of all ancient civilizations produced nothing almost between 1000 a.d. to 1900 a.d.