"Well, it's all about pride and arrogance, in these cases...
Having just traveled through the 'Badlands' of North Dakota;
Just reminds me of another place and time:
Custer's Last Stand...
Those Euro's considered themselves quite superior to the savages,
those tree hugging natives...
Same attitude, I guess-
Primarily British- "A bloody shame", really, and truely.
R.G.
.....(snippy > In case you hadn't noticed, the man believes
that the British
> > > deliberately rewrote parts of the
> > > > vedic literature over a 150 year period in order to destroy
> > > Hinduism...>>>
> > >
> > > He may actually be right about that. There was one Victorian
> British
> > > officer in India that deliberately mistranslated some vedic
> > > literature for the purpose of specifically advancing the
> christian
> > > superiority complex over the hindu, and attempting to
> deliberately
> > > denegrate hinduism. This officer (I forgot his name) is recorded
> in
> > > letters and official documents that that was his specific aim
> and he
> > > was proud of his actions, and no-one questioned his actions at
> the
> > > time..
> > >
> > > OffWorld
> > >
> >
> >
> > His tenure lasted 150 years?>>
>
> No, but the influence of this and other European arrogancies did.
>
> Not long after the time of the British governer's (whatever title
> given) attempt to re-write some vedic writings to deliberately,
> systematically, and proudly, subordinate it to christianity....Max
> Muller, the hugely German scholar, for decades largely demened and
> incorrectly downgraded the Vedic culture's presence and stature in
> the region. So much so that to this day there is still an old school
> of respected scholars who still believe that the vast epics of the
> Vedas and Vedic tradition were largely the campfire stories of some
> wandering Afghan peasant sheepherders and their marauding heirs.
> However, the MAJORITY of modern scholarly thought is now realising
> that the Vedas were in India long before any Afghan migration. But
> Max Muller (along with other British repressions and other European
> short-sightedness) was a HUGE figure in Vedic scholarly field (even
> among westernised Indian scholars) and only very recently is being
> toppled from his god-like status towards a less pompous and humbled
> view of the vedic culture on the part of western scholars.
> (I really wanted to study this whole thing as a PHD, and travel to
> India to delve deeper into it, and write a book, but I don't suppose
> I ever will now)
> QUOTE:
> ""Max Muller represented the bes, and at times the worst, of
> nineteenth-century intellectual life. His work in the origins and
> growth of language, mythology, and religion, typified Victorian
> armchair scholarship: bold, adventurous, pioneering, sometimes
> triumphalistic, but always convinced of its social and cultural
> superiority. To be sure, there is much to admire, much to despise,
> and much to be embarrassed by, in the antiquated scholarship of the
> Victorian era as a whole. But as a pivotal period in the history of
> human ideas, the historical and intellectual import of its scholarly
> literature should not be ignored by historians or summarily
> dismissed by present-day researchers as utterly worthless. Rather,
> it should be read and understood within its own social and cultural
> context. In the case of the voluminous and, at the time, influential
> writings of Friedrich Max Muller, this observation proves no less
> true. ""
> http://www.wordtrade.com/society/mullermax.htm
>
> (If you have a one-liner, poorly thought out answer for your
> response sparaig, you will be called "spare egghead" for 3 days by
> me)
>
> OffWorld
>
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