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**forebirdo** · 11-04-2009, 08:09 AM

Dear Pannvalan.

Respectfully sir, what is wrong in quoting Wikipedia? Most of the topics about India, Hinduism and such there are authored by Indians and argued and settled by Indians.

Again, I do not understand your aversion to scholorship by western folks. Because of the educational system in the west research in Indology is very much supported. In India, while such research is going on, I don't come across it much in an easy way.

While seeking truth, I usually look in to the content, not at tan author's nationality first.

Regards,
KRS

Without relying on western sources like Wikipedia or any celebrated historians from outside the country, why shall we not believe the words of our own historians and other scholars? Don't we trust our own people or do we think that the premise, methodology and conclusion of them are all wrong?

If it is so, does it not show that we nurture some sort of prejudice against our own
countrymen, howsoever great they are?

11-04-2009, 08:09 AM	#35
forebirdo Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 584 Senior Member	Dear Pannvalan. Respectfully sir, what is wrong in quoting Wikipedia? Most of the topics about India, Hinduism and such there are authored by Indians and argued and settled by Indians. Again, I do not understand your aversion to scholorship by western folks. Because of the educational system in the west research in Indology is very much supported. In India, while such research is going on, I don't come across it much in an easy way. While seeking truth, I usually look in to the content, not at tan author's nationality first. Regards, KRS Without relying on western sources like Wikipedia or any celebrated historians from outside the country, why shall we not believe the words of our own historians and other scholars? Don't we trust our own people or do we think that the premise, methodology and conclusion of them are all wrong? If it is so, does it not show that we nurture some sort of prejudice against our own countrymen, howsoever great they are?
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