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What is interesting is that the US elite had a deep study of India over the years since the British period. Google Books has scanned a treasury of books(~250) on India from the mid 19th century from the Harvard Library. What is interesting is a significant number are US published books selected by committees chaired by some of the most elite figures- eg. Lodge family, the original Boston Brahmins. And add to this the support that some of them gave to Indian freedom fighters of the early 20th century. To me what this indicates is there was an idea to succeed the Brits in India, in case an opportunity shows up.
We are now at a turning point in history where manifest destiny has reached is limits.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
See the Stanley Kubrick Move 2001 - Space Oddessey
http://www.kubrick2001.com/
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2001: A Space Odyssey may be Kubrick's most famous and influential film. Steven Spielberg has called it his generation's "Big Bang", focusing their attention on the race to space. The special effects techniques that Kubrick pioneered were later built upon by Ridley Scott and George Lucas for films such as Alien and Star Wars, respectively. 2001 is particularly notable as one of the few films in which space travel is presented in as realistic a manner as possible. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This is To understand the evolutionary thinking in the west from 1700s. The discovery of sanskrit in the 1700s removed the myths of Hebrew being the root language of European languages and freed their mind from the biblical box in which the western thought process operated till that time. After 1830s the west left the arabic centric world view to the new 'aryan' centric world view to expand their horizon- intellectually and materially.
For widening their thought process they had to read the Indian texts and other translations of the Indic civilization literature and this fueled the scientific progress to the 20th century. US with their resources and the Boston Brahmins with their intellectual inquiry were the first to explore these deeply.
This is one of the reasons for the funding of study of Indic studies in the last 100 years the western universities. The idea to succeed the Brits in India came up after WWI when Brits over reached in that war.
What is interesting is that the US elite had a deep study of India over the years since the British period. Google Books has scanned a treasury of books(~250) on India from the mid 19th century from the Harvard Library. What is interesting is a significant number are US published books selected by committees chaired by some of the most elite figures- eg. Lodge family, the original Boston Brahmins. And add to this the support that some of them gave to Indian freedom fighters of the early 20th century. To me what this indicates is there was an idea to succeed the Brits in India, in case an opportunity shows up.
We are now at a turning point in history where manifest destiny has reached is limits.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
See the Stanley Kubrick Move 2001 - Space Oddessey
http://www.kubrick2001.com/
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Stanley Kubrick
2001: A Space Odyssey may be Kubrick's most famous and influential film. Steven Spielberg has called it his generation's "Big Bang", focusing their attention on the race to space. The special effects techniques that Kubrick pioneered were later built upon by Ridley Scott and George Lucas for films such as Alien and Star Wars, respectively. 2001 is particularly notable as one of the few films in which space travel is presented in as realistic a manner as possible. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This is To understand the evolutionary thinking in the west from 1700s. The discovery of sanskrit in the 1700s removed the myths of Hebrew being the root language of European languages and freed their mind from the biblical box in which the western thought process operated till that time. After 1830s the west left the arabic centric world view to the new 'aryan' centric world view to expand their horizon- intellectually and materially.
For widening their thought process they had to read the Indian texts and other translations of the Indic civilization literature and this fueled the scientific progress to the 20th century. US with their resources and the Boston Brahmins with their intellectual inquiry were the first to explore these deeply.
This is one of the reasons for the funding of study of Indic studies in the last 100 years the western universities. The idea to succeed the Brits in India came up after WWI when Brits over reached in that war.