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India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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quoted in Klosterrnaier, Klaus K A Survey of Hinduism. State University of New York Press. 1994. quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture. New Delhi: Pragun Publication.

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