"In India, the bourgeois, in Japan, the Samurai; in this single difference is comprised the whole contrasted histories of the two nations during the nineteenth century."
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Sri Aurobindo, The Bourgeois and the Samurai (1906– 1907), quoted in The Idea of India- Bhārat as a Civilisation -- Subhash Kak
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