Another interesting article from the same link.
http://www.axess.se/english/archive/2004/nr2/currentissue/theme_inventionhindu.php
Here's a sample:
The invention of the Hindu
Hinduism is largely a fiction, formulated in the 18th and 19th
centuries out of a multiplicity of sub-continental religions, and
enthusiastically endorsed by Indian modernisers...
But the British assumed that different religious practices could only
exist within a single overarching tradition. They also started off
with a literary bias, which was partly the result of the mass
distribution of texts and the consequent high degree of literacy in
Europe in the eighteenth century. They thought that since Christianity
had canonical texts, Indian tradition must have the same. Their local
intermediaries tended to be Brahmans, who alone knew the languages
�primarily Sanskrit� needed to study such ancient Indian texts as the
Vedas and the Bhagavad-Gita. Together, the British scholars and their
Brahman interpreters came up with a canon of sorts, mostly Brahmanical
literature and ideology, which they began to identify with a single
Hindu religion.
The Brahmanical literature, so systematised, later created much
of the appeal of Indian culture for its foreign connoisseurs, such as
the German romantics, Schopenhauer, Emerson and Thoreau. The strange
fact here is that most Indians then knew nothing or very little of the
hymns, invocations and liturgical formulae of the four Vedas or the
philosophical idealism of the Upanishads that the British and other
European scholars in Europe took to be the very essence of Indian
civilisation...
--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Apr 27, 2005, at 12:57 PM, Llundrub wrote:
>
> > Yeah, well, maybe an oil substitute before that, and how about moving
> > sidewalks and hovering autos.
>
> There was a 60 Minutes two weeks ago on this very topic. NASA is about
> to make available software which has a visual display in the vehicle.
> Essentially what it does is plot highways in the sky. It will allow
> average Joes and Janes to drive a sky-vehicle. They showed several of
> the vehicles. This will happen very soon. My son was crestfallen as he
> was certain he would invent the first hybrid car-helicoptor.
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