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   Vishwa Adluri: 'We have become so used to Hindu self-   
   effacement that we now view Hindus as being assertive'   
      
   OPEN Magazine, openthemagazine.com   
   Thursday, September 28, 2017   
      
   Excerpts:   
      
   We must appreciate Hinduism first and foremost as an   
   intellectual architecture. Despite centuries of Islamic   
   rule and, later, colonisation, it retained its vitality   
   well into the last century. Hinduism is thus important   
   for not only India but also the world.   
      
   [...]   
      
   It takes time to decolonise. The Indian state today is   
   the legal and political successor to British India, and   
   the British themselves inherited systems of revenue and   
   administration from the Mughal Empire. It is utopian to   
   think a radical new beginning can be made. But projects   
   are underway.   
      
   [...]   
      
   Continues at:   
      
   http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/open-conversation/vishwa-   
   dluri-we-have-become-so-used-to-hindu-self-effacement-that-we-no   
   -view-hindus-as-being   
      
   Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi   
   Om Shanti   
      
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