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- From: bond@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Girish)
- Subject: Re: Interpolations and Scriptures (Re: Forgeries of Hindu Scriptures)
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- In article <C14Gn5.889@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ahudli@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (anand hudli) writes:
- >
- >[.......]
- > Although research done by western scholars in Vedic literature is
- > commendable, most of them had prejudices about Hinduism and India.
- > Let me quote from the introductory remarks of the book titled
- > Yajur Veda by Devi Chand, Munshiram Manoharlal Publsihers, 1980.
- >
- > "... Yet all the scholars from the west could not remain free
- > from prejudices and could not always maintain objectivity
- > in their writings. Some of them,.., aimed at perpetuating
- > colonial rule in India while others expected to convert
- > Indians to Christianity through their writings on Oriental
- > subjects. "
- >[........]
-
-
- Yes, while Muslim invaders did their best to convert Hindus with
- their swords, European Christian scholars like Max Muller did
- their worst to convert Hindus with their pens. There was enough
- scope for maliciously motivated translations by Christian scholars
- to give Hinduism a bad name. British officials and statesmen made
- no secret of their intensions to convert 'heathen' Hindudom to
- Christianity. Following are a few excerpts from Max Muller's letters
- which gives clear idea of his intensions:
-
- In his letter dated December 16, 1838, Max Muller wrote to the then
- Secretary of State of Bharat, the Duke of Argyll: "The ancient
- religion of India is doomed and if Christianity does not step in
- whose fault will it be?"
-
- His another letter to the Secretary of State echoes the same unholy
- ambition: "India has been conquered once, but India must be conquered
- again and that second conquest should be a conquest by education."
-
- Max Muller completed a translation of Vedas in 1866. At this juncture,
- he confided to his dear wife his very very dear aim of seeing all
- Hindudom swallowed up by Christianity. He wrote in the letter
- addressed to her:
-
- "I hope I shall finish that work and I fill convinced that though
- I shall not live to see it, this edition of mine and the translation
- of the Vedas will, hereafter, tell to a great extent on the fate of
- India on the growth of millions of souls in that country. It is the
- root of their religion and to show them what the root is, I feel
- sure, is the only way of uprooting all that has sprung from it
- during the last 3000 years."
-
- Reference: Originally from "Letters on India" by Maria Graham,
- reprinted in "World Vedic Heritage".
-
-
- -- Girish.
-
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-