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Buddhist India

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Item Code: AZG354
Author: T.W. RHYS DAVIDS
Publisher: Siddharth Books, Delhi
Language: ENGLISH
Edition: 2020
ISBN: 9789386928
Pages: 252 (B/W Illustrations)
Cover: PAPERBACK
Other Details 8.50x.5.50
Weight 320 gm
Book Description
Preface
In the following work a first attempt has been made to describe ancient India, during the period of Buddhist ascendancy, from the point of view, not so much of the brahmin, as of the rajput. The two points of view naturally differ very much, Priest and noble in India have always worked very well together so long as the question at issue did not touch their own rival claims as against one another. When it did-and it did so especially during the period referred to the harmony, as will be evident from the following pages, was not so great.

Even to make this attempt at all may be regarded by some as a kind of lèse majesté. The brahmin view, in possession of the field when Europeans entered India, has been regarded so long with reverence among us that it seems almost an impertinence now, to put forward the other. "Why not leave well alone? Why resuscitate from the well-deserved oblivion in which, for so many centuries, they have happily lain, the pestilent views of these tiresome people? The puzzles of Indian history have been solved by respectable men in Manu and the Great Bharata, which have the advantage of being equally true for five centuries before Christ and five centuries after. Shade of Kumárila! what are we coming to when the writings of these fellows--renegade brahmins among them too-are actually taken seriously, and mentioned without a sneer? If by chance they say anything well, that is only because it was better said, before they said it, by the orthodox brahmins, who form, and have always formed, the key stone of the arch of social life in India. They are the only proper authorities. Why trouble about these miserable heretics?"

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