<!--QuoteBegin-Bodhi+May 19 2007, 11:33 AM-->QUOTE(Bodhi @ May 19 2007, 11:33 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Recently someone gave me a video film on Ayurveda, in which is interviewed a descendant of traditional practiceners of Siddha medicine/Marma Shastra living in Coimbatore, describing how Europeans in 18/19th century cut off the fingers of their forefathers to suppress that art, and reounts how kings of Malabar valued the worth of this art as to secretly protect some of them, even at the cost angering their allies - the British.[right][snapback]69023[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Praise be to the christocolonials like the Brits! What a blessing they were to India. Their wondrous record in India has been suppressed for so long, it's most unfair. The world ought to learn how christocompassionate and kind they were to Hindus.
The christian art of maiming was one of their oft-practised hobbies in India, as was other torture and book burning:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>The burning of ancient books on Ayurveda in Kerala</b>, so as to impose the European system of medicine on the natives, <b>the cutting of weavers' thumbs in Bengal</b> with a view of crippling the production of superior Indian cloth and ensuring the sale of British products, the ruthless, often bloody, extortion of revenue from the peasants for decades on end, even in the midst of the worst famines, the whipping, hangings and tortures that awaited those who opposed the Empire - these are only a few among the unending examples of the "providential character" of the British rule. But they took place too far from the "civilized" world to attract any notice. The Britons like the relief of high-sounding speeches in London's salons, adorned with a few pagan objects d'art purloined from India. )<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> ( http://www.hinduwisdom.info/European_Imperialism.htm )
I get all teary-eyed when I hear how wonderful christocolonials were... But not to worry, they've left a wonderful legacy behind in the Congress, communists and christoterrorism, that continue where they left off.
The christian art of maiming was one of their oft-practised hobbies in India, as was other torture and book burning:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>The burning of ancient books on Ayurveda in Kerala</b>, so as to impose the European system of medicine on the natives, <b>the cutting of weavers' thumbs in Bengal</b> with a view of crippling the production of superior Indian cloth and ensuring the sale of British products, the ruthless, often bloody, extortion of revenue from the peasants for decades on end, even in the midst of the worst famines, the whipping, hangings and tortures that awaited those who opposed the Empire - these are only a few among the unending examples of the "providential character" of the British rule. But they took place too far from the "civilized" world to attract any notice. The Britons like the relief of high-sounding speeches in London's salons, adorned with a few pagan objects d'art purloined from India. )<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> ( http://www.hinduwisdom.info/European_Imperialism.htm )
I get all teary-eyed when I hear how wonderful christocolonials were... But not to worry, they've left a wonderful legacy behind in the Congress, communists and christoterrorism, that continue where they left off.