#india

…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi ↗

— Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

#hindu #hinduism #india #indian-quote #wife

Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#asia #conquest #england #europe #great-britain

A boy, Ranga, is the light in his father’s eye and the love in his mother’s heart. ↗

— "Harkishen Singh"

#india #wisdom #love

Everywhere we walked we got plenty of attention due to the camera and sound men. The locals love to get on camera. [...] I'd seen footage of Gandhi surrounded like this and always thought it was because he was very popular, but now I wonder if it was just because he had a camera crew with him. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#humor #india #travel #humor

Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest. ↗

— John Lawson

#follow #french #indians #interest #living

Everything changes except human behavior and its consequences. ↗

— Stephanie M. Sellers

#horses #lumbee-indians #mustangs #non-fiction #north-carolina

I look more Indian when I'm serious. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#indian #look #more #serious

Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#been #certainly #continue #emotion #helpless

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#away #change #children #completion #compulsory

Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect. ↗

— James Buchan

#baghdad #been #british #creeping #decline