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S. N. Balagangadhara Quotes

born 1952 Belgium

S. N.

Belgium
Philosophers

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“The secular state assumes that the Semitic religions and the Hindu traditions are instances of the same kind”

Most of our so-called social sciences are not ‘sciences’ in any sense of the term: they are merely bad Christian theologies

Brahminism is an invention of western Indology. Indology which is fond of ‘-isms’ has created quite a few: Brahminism, Vedism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and so on.

All you need to know at this stage is that while it is true that people subjugate people, so does a religion. The latter’s colonisation is an entirely different process from conversion into a religion.

“Orientalism is reproduced in the name of a critique of Orientalism. It is completely irrelevant whether one uses a Marx, a Weber or a Max Müller to do so. (…) the result is the same: uninteresting trivia, as far as the growth of human knowledge is concerned; but pernicious in its effect as far as Indian intellectuals are concerned.”

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