"Hindus who used words such as religion, or secular, or Hinduism were not merely displaying their fluency in English. They were also adopting a new and alien perspective on their country, and turning it to their advantage."
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Tom Holland - Dominion_ The Making of the Western Mind-Little, Brown (2019)
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