India: What It Can Teach Us
 

India: What It Can Teach Us

by Max Muller

The collection of lectures of Max Muller portrays India, specially, the Vedic India, as an epitome of virtuosity and morality, whose glory is equal if not greater to the classical Greek or Roman Civilizations. Max Muller urges the Westerners to come out of their supreme colonial mindset and admire and adopt the multi-dimensional efficacy that is inherent in India. Muller espouses an amazing... (read more)

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F.Max Muller is an authority on India.Any Indian could be proud of high opinion that he had for India.This book is series of lectures delivered by him to the aspirants of Indian Civil Services prior to independence of India.

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  • Aruneshwar Gupta

    aruneshwar gupta said:

    Max Muller was a Christian missionary of German origin, who at the age of 25 yrs with 6 yrs study of Sanskrit in Germany was hired by East India Company @ £ 4 per sheet to complete the translation in his lifetime…which he was able to accomplish in the most scholarly fashion of highest caliber sitting in Oxford, London…

    It was painful if not shocking to see how a person with small mind (Ravana, Kans, Duryodhan, Alexander, Napoleon, Hitler,…) Lord Macaulay here can use a group of people, with a very sharp, keen and scholarly intellect but no feelings, experience and realisation of the Truth and seek to trample, crush and butcher magnanimous cultures with a view to achieve ‘strategic world dominance’ which history has repeatedly told us has not and cannot be achieved… But the man will continue to create an irrational group, misdirect and charge the thoughts of public with passion to achieve the impossible... it is time to see the undercurrent of these books... how many Indian Saints have translated and written commentaries on Bible???? Read Tolstoy last letter to Gandhi exposing the contradictory existence of Christians which led to formation of Tolstoy Farm in South Africa and the basis of non co-operation movement of India Independence...

    posted Wednesday, November 28 2007
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