A Dharmic Social History of India Quotes

“As later events showed, this was a remarkable foresight that Dayananda showed. Later Blavatsky wrote that in him, 'there was a total absence of everything like degrading sycophancy and toadyism towards foreigners from interested motives.”
― Aravindan Neelakandan, A Dharmic Social History of India

“During the short-lived Madurai Sultanate( 1334-1378), there were reports of extreme hardship in the society, Ibn Batuta, an Algerian Arab explorer, documented campaigns against 'idolaters' involving impaling the entire male population and slitting the throats of women and children.”
― Aravindan Neelakandan, A Dharmic Social History of India

“A temple dancer named Vellayi(meaning fair, white woman) decided to enact an act of defiant resistance to the Islamist commander who was doing this. She seduced him and took him to a top temple tower, and then, as he approached her, she threw him down from the tower, which immediately killed the general. ..she and her community should be given the honour of getting fire for the rites from the sacred ovens from where the food for the Lord was cooked and that Prasad and divine-symbol honours should be given. That promise was made to her, and it was then being followed through generations. One of the towers of Sri Rangam is painted in pure honour of this dancer-girl.”
― Aravindan Neelakandan, A Dharmic Social History of India

“Then Buddha points out how even an excommunicated Kshatriya is socially considered superior to a Brahmana while an excommunicated Brahmana falls below a Kshatriya.

Buddha says, "So even if a Kshatriya has suffered extreme humiliation, he is superior and the Brahmins inferior."

Buddha quotes a verse he attributes to Brahma Sanatkumara: The Kshatriya's best among those who value clan, he with knowledge and conduct is best of gods and men.”
― Aravindan Neelakandan, A Dharmic Social History of India