Nigel Biggar's Blog, page 39
April 15, 2023
RT by @NigelBiggar: The translation by British scholars of Hindu texts into English had huge impact among Indians themselves. Gandhi often read Hindu texts in English.
The translation by British scholars of Hindu texts into English had huge impact among Indians themselves. Gandhi often read Hindu texts in English.
RT by @NigelBiggar: The Ajanta caves are India's proudest monument, with their frescos embodying the Indian ideal of beauty. but who found them? British hunters in the 1820s. They were being used as cow stables. The British found and protected Indian monu
The Ajanta caves are India's proudest monument, with their frescos embodying the Indian ideal of beauty. but who found them? British hunters in the 1820s. They were being used as cow stables. The British found and protected Indian monuments. 3.
RT by @NigelBiggar: Asoka, today rated the greatest Indian ruler, had been forgotten in India until the British scholar James Prinsep discovered him in the nineteenth century. It was the British who established that Buddha had been an Indian. 1.
Asoka, today rated the greatest Indian ruler, had been forgotten in India until the British scholar James Prinsep discovered him in the nineteenth century. It was the British who established that Buddha had been an Indian. 1.
RT by @NigelBiggar: I repeat - the Empire had its good deeds and certainly benefited India in very important ways - uniting the country, giving it a strong army for the first time, restoring Hindu history. But we have to be balanced.
I repeat - the Empire had its good deeds and certainly benefited India in very important ways - uniting the country, giving it a strong army for the first time, restoring Hindu history. But we have to be balanced.
RT by @NigelBiggar: An empire that was among the first in the history of the world to abolish slavery in the name of a Christian view that all races are equal under God, notwithstanding various degrees of cultural development, cannot have been generally ‘
An empire that was among the first in the history of the world to abolish slavery in the name of a Christian view that all races are equal under God, notwithstanding various degrees of cultural development, cannot have been generally ‘white supremacist’.
R to @NigelBiggar: An empire that was among the first in the history of the world to abolish slavery in the name of a Christian view that all races are equal under God, notwithstanding various degrees of cultural development, cannot have been generally ‘w
An empire that was among the first in the history of the world to abolish slavery in the name of a Christian view that all races are equal under God, notwithstanding various degrees of cultural development, cannot have been generally ‘white supremacist’.
RT by @NigelBiggar: Distorting our imperial history is dangerous https://nigelbiggar.uk/2023/04/14/dis...
Distorting our imperial history is dangerous nigelbiggar.uk/2023/04/14/di…
RT by @NigelBiggar: 15 Apr 1892, Corrie ten Boom (d.1983) born. First woman to be licensed as watchmaker in Holland. She & her family hid Jews in #WW2. Released from Ravensbruck due to clerical error. Then became Christian speaker & writer. ‘Righteous Amon
15 Apr 1892, Corrie ten Boom (d.1983) born. First woman to be licensed as watchmaker in Holland. She & her family hid Jews in #WW2. Released from Ravensbruck due to clerical error. Then became Christian speaker & writer. ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ for sheltering & saving Jews.
RT by @NigelBiggar: Leading nationalists attack the foreign secretary over new guidelines that insist overseas governments must contact UK ambassadors if they want to meet SNP ministers.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/20...
Leading nationalists attack the foreign secretary over new guidelines that insist overseas governments must contact UK ambassadors if they want to meet SNP ministers.
thetimes.co.uk/article/209f5…
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