"...the revising of the date for the cave temples of Elephanta to about 1000 c.k. in 1819 from early modern dates that made them contemporary with the Egyptian pyramids completely altered Europeans’ attitude toward the temples. As Partha Mitter has argued: ‘‘At one stroke the whole myth of [Elephanta’s] remote antiquity was demolished as it was brought within a conceivable historical era.”’"
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Mitter, Much Maligned Monsters, p. 157; in Suzanne L. Marchand - German Orientalism in the Age of Empire. Religion, Race, and Scholarship-Cambridge University Press (2009)
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