A History of Hindu Civilisation during British Rule

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A History of Hindu Civilisation during British Rule

1894

But Buddhism and Christianity as adopted by the mass of the people are systems of superstition as different from the Buddhism of Gautama and the Christianity of Christ as the Hinduism of the Purdnas and Tantras is different from that of the Upanishads. [...] Hindu philosophy in comparison with which in the words of Schlegel even the loftiest philosophy of the Europeans" appears "like a feeble Promethean spark in the full flood of heavenly glory of the noonday sun faltering and feeble and ever ready to be extinguished " had for its object the discovery of the path of salvation. [...] Not a few of the works of the Hindus even of the brightest periods of their civilisation are strange compounds of the sublime and the ridiculous. [...] On a survey of the principal religions of the world we find that the influence of religion upon civilisation is salutary in proportion to its liberality with regard to the social the intelle&ual and the religious life of its The protective followers. [...] They both agree in the necessity of social reforms and differ only in the faa of the policy of one the larger class being charaaerised by great caution.* * The position of the Neo-Hindus of the cautious type was defined by the Hon.
history
Pages
283
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.141780
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frommatter
i-cvii Pramatha Bose view
Chapter I. A Brief Sketch of the History of Hinduism from the Earliest Times to the British Rule
1-44 unknown view
Chapter II. English Influence on Hinduism
45-76 unknown view
Chapter III. Neo-Hinduism
77-102 unknown view
Chapter IV. Recent Hindu Sects
103-127 unknown view
Chapter V. The Brahma Samaj
128-176 unknown view

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