Aldous Huxley on india (cited by K S Bajpai): “A huge pseudo-historical literature has sprung up… the melancholy product of a subject people’s inferiority complex… A sentence of a dozen words, obscure even to the most accomplished Sanskrit scholars, is triumphantly quoted to prove that the ancient Hindus were familiar with the chemical constitution of water. Another… is held up as proof that they anticipated Pasteur. A passage from… the Mahabharata proves that they had invented the Zeppelin. Remarkable people these old Hindus. They knew everything that we know but were unfortunately too modest to state the fact baldly… A little more clarity on their part, and India would now be centuries ahead of her Western rivals. But they preferred to be oracular… only after the upstart West has repeated their discoveries (can) the modern Indian… interpret their dark sayings as anticipations… Free men would never dream of wasting their time and wit upon such vanities.” Thanks Rajiv Desai
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:53:06 +0000
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