Author: Manmatha Nath Dutt

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-15

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781330097847

Excerpt from Gleanings From Indian Classics The Hindus and their Religion are them st misunderstood thing in the modern world. The civilized people of the Western World labour under the notion that the Hindus are a people a little better than the aborigines of Africa and their Religion is no better than the grossest sort of idolatry. The fault does not lie with them. The Hindus are by nature very retiring and modest; they never thrust themselves upon others, - especially to nations who are in every way different from them. A foreigner, if he passes all his life in India, will never know the autonomy of a Hindu-home; he will never know their domestic arrangements, - he will never understand what sort of being a Hindu really is; for a Hindu is too bashful and too modest to defend himself by explaining his religion and morals or manners and customs. They cannot be easily known from their books, for they are written in a language very difficult to master. Thus the popular notion of the Western World is, that the Hindus are semi-aborigines, who worship woods and stones. But a few of the great scholars of Europe and America have a different notion of the Hindus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.