09-05-2006, 08:00 PM
In post #50 I wrote:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The object of the picture is to show that <b>there was a progression of ideas from thinking India is the mother of all civilization(Voltarie, Schelgel granted could be later, mid 18th cent) to India is the recieving end of all the invader dregs(Max Mueller, mid 19 cent.) and thus has no originality. All this in 100 years. The big question should be why?</b>
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Folks find the answer to this and you would unravel the AIT. Also lets not make this thread the repository for drivel like the David Duke follower's ideas.
One more question is when they talk of stagnation what to they mean? Are we seeing the begining of "modernity' in their laments? In other words their disenchantment with India is due to their feeling of being the "other" and hence no chance of breaking/shaking off the J-C mileu?
We see a reapeat of this fascination for India among the Flower generation of the Baby Boomers in the 1960s (About 200 year later from original encounter with Sanskrit or 100 years after the AIT) and again disenchantment. So what is it that they find in Indian culture that turns them off? Why this fascination and the subsequent rejection?
Into this mix we need to throw in Hegel and his work "Philosophy of History". He is the one who says Indians dont have a sense of "History". I have the feeling that Hegel is the precursor to the AIT. While Max Mueller gave it form.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The object of the picture is to show that <b>there was a progression of ideas from thinking India is the mother of all civilization(Voltarie, Schelgel granted could be later, mid 18th cent) to India is the recieving end of all the invader dregs(Max Mueller, mid 19 cent.) and thus has no originality. All this in 100 years. The big question should be why?</b>
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Folks find the answer to this and you would unravel the AIT. Also lets not make this thread the repository for drivel like the David Duke follower's ideas.
One more question is when they talk of stagnation what to they mean? Are we seeing the begining of "modernity' in their laments? In other words their disenchantment with India is due to their feeling of being the "other" and hence no chance of breaking/shaking off the J-C mileu?
We see a reapeat of this fascination for India among the Flower generation of the Baby Boomers in the 1960s (About 200 year later from original encounter with Sanskrit or 100 years after the AIT) and again disenchantment. So what is it that they find in Indian culture that turns them off? Why this fascination and the subsequent rejection?
Into this mix we need to throw in Hegel and his work "Philosophy of History". He is the one who says Indians dont have a sense of "History". I have the feeling that Hegel is the precursor to the AIT. While Max Mueller gave it form.