Anonymous
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7/9/2025, 12:42:37 AM No.509871546
Any of this ring a bell?
John Bacon (1840)
>Bacon describes Hindus as “inert” and filled with “low cunning,” “superstition” and “fulsome sycophancy.” He complains their language is “a heap of allegories,” condemns Hindu beliefs as “absurd” and “monstrous,” and portrays the entire group as lacking compassion compared to the British
Jemima Kindersley (1760s)
>In her letters she refers to Indians as having “stupidity and low cunning,” framing them as inherently backward
Travel guides (late 1800s)
>Indian train guards and hotels are inadequate, advised that native servants “should be quietly kept in their proper places,” and depicted local laborers as “swarming … like insects”
Charles Grant & James Mill (early 19th c.)
>Grant described Hindus as “a people exceedingly depraved,” and ridiculed Sanskrit medicine, astronomy, history, and geography as laughable nonsense. James Mill called Indians contemptuously “cowardly, unfeeling and mendacious”
Rev. Hobart Caunter (1834)
>described the Bengalese as "notoriously licentious" and hill men as "servile, deceptive and cunning, utterly without honour or principle"
Mark Twain (1897)
>expressed disgust at the Ganges, stating, "the memory of that sight will always stay by me, but not by request"
Abbe J.A. Dubois (early 19th c.)
>described Hindu customs as "abominable and revolting," compared Hindus to cannibals, calling their habits "disgusting" and their food "revolting."
John Bacon (1840)
>Bacon describes Hindus as “inert” and filled with “low cunning,” “superstition” and “fulsome sycophancy.” He complains their language is “a heap of allegories,” condemns Hindu beliefs as “absurd” and “monstrous,” and portrays the entire group as lacking compassion compared to the British
Jemima Kindersley (1760s)
>In her letters she refers to Indians as having “stupidity and low cunning,” framing them as inherently backward
Travel guides (late 1800s)
>Indian train guards and hotels are inadequate, advised that native servants “should be quietly kept in their proper places,” and depicted local laborers as “swarming … like insects”
Charles Grant & James Mill (early 19th c.)
>Grant described Hindus as “a people exceedingly depraved,” and ridiculed Sanskrit medicine, astronomy, history, and geography as laughable nonsense. James Mill called Indians contemptuously “cowardly, unfeeling and mendacious”
Rev. Hobart Caunter (1834)
>described the Bengalese as "notoriously licentious" and hill men as "servile, deceptive and cunning, utterly without honour or principle"
Mark Twain (1897)
>expressed disgust at the Ganges, stating, "the memory of that sight will always stay by me, but not by request"
Abbe J.A. Dubois (early 19th c.)
>described Hindu customs as "abominable and revolting," compared Hindus to cannibals, calling their habits "disgusting" and their food "revolting."
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