Who Wrote This?

The Mohammadan conquest with its propagandist work and later the Christian missionary movement attempted to shake the stability of Hindu society and in an age deeply conscious of instability, authority naturally became the rock on which alone it seemed that social safety and ethical order could be reared. The Hindu, in face of the clash of cultures fortified himself with conventions and barred all entry to invading ideas. There were no longer any thinkers but only scholars who refused to strike new notes and were content to raise echoes of the old call.

14 Comments

  1. Ghostwriter
    Posted April 13, 2008 at 2:07 am | Permalink

    Will Durant

  2. kaangeya
    Posted April 13, 2008 at 7:36 am | Permalink

    Ambedkar? Kosambi?

  3. Posted April 13, 2008 at 8:57 am | Permalink

    Certainly not Irfan Habib.

  4. Posted April 13, 2008 at 11:32 am | Permalink

    Probably some of the older titans from the Sangh Parivar — Golwalkar or Savarkar?
    Maybe in the context of why a forward looking ‘hindutva’ based upon the principles of self-defense, indian identity and hindu-dharma first was required.

  5. Posted April 13, 2008 at 12:34 pm | Permalink

    Neerad C Chaudhary ??

  6. A
    Posted April 13, 2008 at 5:22 pm | Permalink

    Naipaul?

  7. Posted April 13, 2008 at 6:09 pm | Permalink

    Mohandas Gandhi

  8. Gujjubhai
    Posted April 13, 2008 at 9:02 pm | Permalink

    Swami Vivekanand?

  9. Mahesh R
    Posted April 14, 2008 at 12:00 am | Permalink

    Jawaharlal Nehru ?

  10. Kishkindhaa
    Posted April 14, 2008 at 11:59 am | Permalink

    Durant

  11. Sharad Misra
    Posted April 14, 2008 at 2:46 pm | Permalink

    J L Nehru In Discovery of India

  12. Sandeep
    Posted April 14, 2008 at 2:51 pm | Permalink

    All,

    Incorrect answers.

  13. Sharad Misra
    Posted April 14, 2008 at 3:24 pm | Permalink

    OOps. had a doubt between S RadhaKrishnan and J L Nehru as I was reading Discovery of India and Basic writings of S Radhakrishan at same time.

    It must Dr S RadhaKrishnan.

  14. Sandeep
    Posted April 14, 2008 at 5:55 pm | Permalink

    Sharad Misra,

    Dr. S Radhakrishnan is the correct answer! :)

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