03-12-2008, 11:51 PM
From Alex Von Tunzelmann's Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"In the beginning, there were two nations. One was a vast, mighty and magnificent empire, brilliantly organized and culturally unified, which dominated a massive swath of the earth. The other was an undeveloped, semifeudal realm, riven by religious factionalism and barely able to feed its illiterate, diseased and stinking masses. The first nation was India. The second was England. The year was 1577. . . ."
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