"India beyond all doubts possesses a deep underlying fundamental unity, far more profound than that produced either by geographical isolation or political suzeranity. That unity transcends the innumerable diversities of blood, colour, language, dress, manners and sects? ... The most essential fundamental Indian unity rests upon the fact that the diverse people of India have deyeloped a peculiar type of culture and civilisation utterly different from any type in the world. That civilization may be summed up by the term Hinduism. India primarily is a Hindu country..."
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Vincent Arthur Smith
Vincent Arthur Smith, CIE, (* 3. June 1848 in Dublin; † 6. February 1920) was an Irish Indologist and art historian.
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