On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:35 AM, ss <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 28 Mar 2012 5:01:51 am Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:50 PM, ss <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://i1116.photobucket.com/albums/k566/bennedose/LRM-intro-ii-part.jpg > This one classified human races as possibly being as different as chmpanzes > and > gorillas. this is what your grandfather was possibly fed. Mine certainly was. > > http://i1116.photobucket.com/albums/k566/bennedose/LRM-263part.jpg > Read it all: "The gross corruptions" of the Vedic Aryans was due to their > intermingling with "black heathendom" >
interesting. i still remember my dear grandmother (unfortunately passed on now) asking me if i "had any negro friends" (note: the terms negro was not said in a derogatory way, but quaint english use... but the idea of inferiority was perhaps there ) . >> >> One look at the classics will tell you that it was a sin against >> tradition to cross the oceans, or travel other than when forced by >> trade or religion. Thus as a classical society India has always been >> ill prepared to deal with personal mobility. > > Not true. Mobility was quite OK all the way into Africa and the far East. The > trading links with those areas, and the temples of Angkor Wat suggest no such > restriction in the remote past My own grandfather, the owner of the book whose > pages are scanned above was himself ostracized for going abroad, and the habit > finds mention in mathematician AK Ramanujam's biography. But this was a more > recent Brahmin reaction to threats that they faced. Clearly not all Brahmins > gave a damn about such threats. I have some interesting anecdotes about how my > grandfather showed the middle finger to thse types. > > >> In the socialist years, >> if you moved across the country it was usually for a government job, >> and the State played parent and guardian to its favorite sons, if it > > I think you are leaving out about 3000 years of history of free movement here. i had a couple of grand uncles who moved to Burma for a long time had a life there (with burmese wives etc. ). One of my cousins did a lot of research on the family tree - and there was anecdotal evidence to suggest that one branch of the family had migrated from western india around 300 years ago ...
