Quote of the Week…

Lord Curzon, the late Viceroy of India, in an address delivered at the Delhi Durbar in 1901:

Powerful Empires existed and flourished here [in India] while Englishmen were still wandering painted in the woods, and while the British Colonies were a wilderness and a jungle.

India has left a deeper mark upon the history, the philosophy, and the religion of mankind, than any other terrestrial unit in the universe. [ link ]

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