 | Pramatha Nath Bose - British - 1894 - 298 pages
...What Alberuni said of the Hindus of .his day applies mutatis mutandis to the latter: "They believe that there is no country but theirs, no nation like...theirs, no religion like theirs, no science like theirs * * * * According to their belief, there is no other country on earth but theirs, and no created beings... | |
 | Pramatha Nath Bose - Civilization, Hindu - 1894 - 296 pages
...What Alberuni said of the Hindus of h1s day applies mutatis mutandis to the. latter: "They believe that there is no country but theirs, no nation like...theirs, no religion like theirs, no science like theirs * * * 1* According to their belief, there is no other country on earth but theirs, and no created beings... | |
 | Pramatha Nath Bose - Civilization, Hindu - 1896 - 320 pages
...struggle victorious, and in the earlier Puranic period, the brightest period of Hindu civilization, they were certainly the sole possessors of the field...Alberuni says,* " that there is no country but theirs, na nation like theirs, no religion like theirs, no science like theirs." They are by nature niggardly... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1907 - 1444 pages
...in all such discussions one thing should be borne in mind. " The Hindus," said AlberunI, " believe that there is no country but theirs, no nation like theirs, no kings like theirs, no science like theirs." 2 The Hindus, although eager to learn from outsiders, have... | |
 | Dinesh D'Souza - Philosophy - 1996 - 764 pages
...learning, but not as impressed as the native Indians themselves. He commented, "The Indians believe that there is no country but theirs, no nation like theirs, no king like theirs, no religion like theirs, no science like theirs." As if to confirm his own tribal... | |
 | Vijay Mishra - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 288 pages
...geographical leveL Hindus, he remarks, see their world as being totally centred on themselves; they "believe that there is no country but theirs, no nation like theirs, no kings like theirs, no science like theirs" (1:12l. Civili2ed societies do not exist outside their domains... | |
 | Susan Bayly - History - 2001 - 448 pages
...Stressing India's 'exclusive attitudes' and 'laws of purity', al-Biruni declared, 'The Hindus believe that there is no country but theirs, no nation like theirs, no kings like theirs, no religion like theirs, no science like theirs. They are haughty, foolishly vain,... | |
 | Mohaini Mohamed - Islamic civilization - 2000 - 192 pages
...his time when he said: ... folly is an illness for which there is no medicine, and the Hindu believe that there is no country but theirs, no nation like theirs, no kings like theirs, no religion like theirs, no science like theirs. They are haughty, foolishly vain,... | |
 | Stephen P. Cohen - Political Science - 2004 - 408 pages
...description of Alberuni, the eleventh-century Muslim scholar-traveler still fits: "The Indians believe that there is no country but theirs, no nation like theirs, no king like theirs, no religion like theirs, no science like theirs."2h One reason for this discrepancy... | |
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We can only say, folly is an illness for which there is na medicine, and the Hindus believe that there is no country but theirs, no nation like theirs, no kings like theirs, no religion like theirs, no science like theirs. 
