"Make no mistake. Without Hinduism, India has no future. Hinduism is the soil into which India's roots are struck, and torn out of that she will inevitably wither, as a tree torn out from its place. Many are the religions and many the races which are flourishing in India, but none of them stretches back into the far dawn of her past, nor is necessary for her endurance as a nation. Every one might pass away as they came, and India would still remain. But let Hinduism vanish, and what is she? A “geographical expression," of the past, a dim memory of а perished glory. Her history, her literature, her art, her monuments, all have Hinduism written across them."
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Annie Besant, Hindu ideals , 1904
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