SV: SV: SV: [Y-Indology] Article on India Studies

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Robert,

 

This is just too wonderful to be true!! I will immediately notify the

relevant Norwegian authorities, so that we can reclaim the India that is

truly ours! (We're a bit short on man-power, so maybe we could get some

help from our American cousins?)

 

Lars Martin

 

 

Dr.art. Lars Martin Fosse

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0674 Oslo - Norway

Phone: +47 22 32 12 19 Fax: +47 850 21 250

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> -----Opprinnelig melding-----

> Fra: Robert Zydenbos [rj.zydenbos]

> Sendt: 19. desember 2003 10:53

> Til: INDOLOGY

> Emne: Re: SV: SV: [Y-Indology] Article on India Studies

>

>

> Am Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2003 14:08 schrieb Lars Martin Fosse:

>

> > > I guess the Scandinavians (M. Fosse is one, from Norway) were

> > > indeed great empire builders, [...] but that was 1000

> years ago, and

> > > I fail to detect a great Norwegian imperium in India.

> >

> > [...]

> > However, after Norway merged with Denmark, the Twin

> Kingdoms were able

> > to acquire a small colony in India. [...]

>

> BUT... now comes the revelation we've all been waiting for!

> Among a new

> shipment of books from India that arrived yesterday, I found

> one titled

> _Hindu Superiority_ by one Har Bilas Sarda (reprint of a 1906 book),

> which contains a short chapter titled "Scandinavians" (in the part

> "HIndu Colonization of the World"), and there we read: «The

> Scandinavians are the descendents of the Hindu Kshatriyas.