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" ... 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, selfconceited, and stolid. They are by nature niggardly in communicating... "
Essays and Lectures on the Industrial Development of India, and Other Indian ... - Page 137
by Pramatha Nath Bose - 1906 - 288 pages
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A History of Civilization in Ancient India: Based on Sanscrit ..., Volume 3

Romesh Chunder Dutt - India - 1890 - 572 pages
...Mlechchas. " They are," says Alberuni, "by nature niggardly in communicating that which they know, and they take the greatest possible care to withhold it from...belief, there is no other country on earth but theirs, no other race of man but theirs, and no created being besides them have any knowledge of science whatever....
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A History of Civilisation in Ancient India: Based on Sanscrit ..., Volume 2

Romesh Chunder Dutt - India - 1893 - 390 pages
...Mlechchas. " They are," says Alberuni, " by nature niggardly in communicating that which they know, and they take the greatest possible care to withhold it from...belief, there is no other country on earth but theirs, no other race of man but theirs, and no created being besides them have any knowledge of science whatever....
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A History of Civilisation in Ancient India: Based on Sanscrit ..., Volume 2

Romesh Chunder Dutt - India - 1893 - 382 pages
..." They are," says Alberuni, " by nature niggardly in communicating that which they 'know, and they take the greatest possible care to withhold it from...belief, there is no other country on earth but theirs, no other race of man but theirs, and no created being besides them have any knowledge of science whatever....
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India Past and Present: Hindu Or Western Civilization Sanskrit Or English ...

India - 1894 - 110 pages
...opinion then entertained by Hindus of their own knowledge compared with that of foreigners : — " According to their belief there is no other country on earth but theirs, no other race of man but theirs, and no created beings besides them have any knowledge of science whatever....
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The History of Civilization in India: A Sketch, with Suggestions for the ...

India - 1902 - 196 pages
..." They are," says Alberuni, " by^ nature niggardly in communicating that which they know, and they take the greatest possible care to withhold it from...belief, there is no other country on earth but theirs. No other race of men but theirs, and no created beings besides them have any knowledge 6*f science...
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Papers on Great Indian Questions of the Day

John Murdoch - Christianity and other religions - 1903 - 592 pages
...by nature niggardly in communicating that which they know, and they take the greatest possible pains to withhold it from men of another caste among their...still much more, of course, from any foreigner."} It has been the policy of the Brahmans from the earliest times to confine knowledge to themselves....
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Alberuni's India: An Account of the Religion, Philosophy ..., Volume 1

Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Bīrūnī, Abū al-Raihān Muhammad ibn Ahmad (al-Bīrūnī.) - Astrology - 1910 - 460 pages
...-conceited, and stolid. They are by nature niggardly in communicating that which they know, and they take the greatest possible care to withhold it from...belief, there is no other country on earth but theirs, no other race of man but theirs, and no created beings besides them have any knowledge or science whatsoever....
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Alberuni's India: An Account of the Religion, Philosophy ..., Volume 1

Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Bīrūnī - Astrology - 1910 - 484 pages
...self-conceited, and stolid. They are by nature niggardly in communicating that which theylcnow, and they take the greatest possible care to withhold it from...foreigner. According to their belief, there is no other couutry on earth but theirs, no other race of man but theirs, and no created beings besides them have...
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A History of India

Hermann Kulke, Dietmar Rothermund - India - 1998 - 406 pages
...no science like theirs. They are by nature niggardly in communicating that which they know, and they take the greatest possible care to withhold it from...people, still much more, of course, from any foreigner. Their haughtiness is such that if you tell them of any science or scholar in Khurasan or Persia, they...
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Creation and Transfer of Knowledge: Institutions and Incentives

Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Partha Dasgupta, Karl-Göran Mäler, Domenico Siniscalco - Business & Economics - 1998 - 336 pages
...character" wrote that Hindus "are by nature niggardly in communicating that which they know, and they take the greatest possible care to withhold it from men of another caste". Alberuni, tr. Sachau, 1910, p.22. 24 (a) Deshpande, 1979; (b) When radio broadcasts started in India...
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