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is on page 53 of 859
“repeated confirmation in travel accounts of India’s barbarity was essential to promoting in Europe its own sense of civilization. Often, it also had more to do with events and anxieties in Western societies than a curiosity about the East”
— May 05, 2026 11:20PM
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Nidhi
is on page 120 of 859
“religion was not ‘a series of propositions to be believed but a series of practices to be undertaken”
— May 07, 2026 11:41PM
Nidhi
is on page 100 of 859
“The proposition that Hinduism had higher and lower forms—the first resembling monotheism, the other ‘messily’ polytheistic—was neither new nor a European bifurcation”
— May 06, 2026 11:51PM
Nidhi
is on page 53 of 859
“At any rate, if Hindu women were not paying for their murderous propensities by being set alight, they were allowing desire to run amok, letting European observers indulge in all kinds of fantasies.”
soo much to unpack...
— May 05, 2026 11:23PM
soo much to unpack...
Nidhi
is on page 36 of 859
"As always, in India, even if the destination were the same, the road could never be one. And as much as this could be read as pluralism, ever present was also the prospect of disunion.”
— May 04, 2026 11:51PM
