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Romila Thapar, an Indian historian... is reviled by some Indian scholars for her acquiescence to many western points of view.

— Thomas McEvilley

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Still, it would be an equally egregious mistake to conclude that India lacks a distinctive and world-important character of its own. Nothing, it seems, comes out of nothing, and no culture is born by parthenogenesis. Ancient Greek culture has had at least as much input from the same sources without being denied its own “miraculous” selfhood.

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