Quotes On India

[Ramta]

<BIG>If there is one place on the face of this Earth
where all the dreams of living men have found a home
from the very earliest days when Man began the dream of existence,
it is India. (Romain Rolland - French Philosopher)</BIG>​

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<BIG></BIG>Bear in mind that the commerce of India is the commerce of the world and ... he who can exclusively command it is the dictator of Europe.
<!--EZCODE BOLD START-->---Peter the Great of Russia​

Many of the advances in the sciences that we consider today to have been made in Europe were in fact made in India centuries ago.
<!--EZCODE BOLD START-->---Grant Duff, British Historian of India<!--EZCODE BOLD END--> ​

India was the motherland of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. India was the mother of our philosophy, of much of our mathematics, of the ideals embodied in Christianity... of self-government and democracy. In many ways, Mother India is the mother of us all.
---<!--EZCODE BOLD START-->Will Durant, American Historian​

In India I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth. but not adhering to it. Inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything but possessed by nothing.
---<!--EZCODE BOLD START-->Apollonius Tyanaeus, Greek Thinker and Traveller 1st Century AD​

Ancient Indian theories lacked an empirical base, but they were brilliant imaginative explanations of the physical structure of the world, and in a large measure, agreed with the discoveries of modern physics.
---<!--EZCODE BOLD START-->A.L. Basham, Australian Indologist​

If I am asked which nation had been advanced
in the ancient world in respect of education and
culture then I would say it was - India.
---<!--EZCODE BOLD START-->Max Muller German Indologist​

In religion, India is the only millionaire .... The One land that all men desire to see and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.
---<!--EZCODE BOLD START-->Mark Twain American Author​

Egypt has been represented in every age as the finest and most fruitful country in the world, and even our modern writers deny that there is any other land so peculiarly favoured by nature; but the knowledge I have acquired of Bengal, during two visits paid to that Kingdom inclines me to believe that pre-eminence ascribed to Egypt is rather due to Bengal. ​

Ancient Bengal men painted their nails to attract girls. This is the earliest mention of colouring nails. In the ancient Indus, girls used lipstick which is also another first use.
---<!--EZCODE BOLD START-->French traveller Francois Bernier​

At its height, around 2500 BC, the first Indian civilization comprised of 1400 cities and towns, spanned an area from Afganistan to Goa (South West India). It was the largest trading and oldest seafaring civilization .
---<!--EZCODE BOLD START-->NOVO​

Indian cities are prosperous and stretch far and wide. There are many guest houses for travellers. There are hospitals providing free medical service for the poor. The viharas and temples are majestic. People are free to choose their occupations. There are no restrictions on the movement of the people. Government officials and soldiers are paid their salaries regularly. People are not addicted to drinks. They shun violence. The administration provided by the Gupta rulers is fair and just.
---<!--EZCODE BOLD START-->Chinese traveller Fa Hien, during the reign of Chandragupta II​

Bangladesh was once the cradle of Buddhism...
---<!--EZCODE BOLD START-->Harry Belitz​

Famine, the trademark of the British, continued all over India (during their rule).
---<!--EZCODE BOLD START-->NOVO​

Indians have in general "superior endowments in reading, writing and arithmetic than the common people of any nation in Europe."
---<!--EZCODE BOLD START-->Warren Hastings, 1813​

It is already becoming clearer that a chapter which has a western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to end in the self-destruction of the human race... At this supremely dangerous moment in history the only way of salvation for mankind is the Indian Way.
---<!--EZCODE BOLD START-->Dr. Arnold Toynbee, British Historian<!--EZCODE BOLD END--> ​

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[SHauKeeN GaBRu]

nice...thnx for sharing

 

[munda_wakhre_type_da]

yea thanx for sharing..really nice one..

 

[MAVERICK]

for sharing 22

 

[too_much]

this post is nice one

but why this guy is banned ?