G Steele

“for a language to acquire retroflexion is for it to become South Asian.”
― Peggy Mohan, Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages

“Nevertheless, Schlieffen decided, in the event of war, to attack France by way of Belgium.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

“More important than any ‘language problem’ is the need to protect the elite and keep it separate and more entitled than everyone else. English is the perfect tool for apartheid.”
― Peggy Mohan, Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages

“The Vedic people stopped interbreeding with the earlier local population and began to talk of purity only when they no longer needed women from outside their community as wives, because they now had enough girl-children whose early mixed roots, they decided, did not matter. And the British came up with their racist notions of not mixing with Indians only after the Suez Canal opened and there were fast steamships bringing white British women to India in search of British husbands. Purity is a convenient political myth floated by the powerful to justify brutal apartheid.”
― Peggy Mohan, Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages