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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
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“When a man is in doubt what to do, he goes wherever he happens to be first called.”
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838–1894) first seen 1885 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kopal-Kundala, Chapter IV: With the Kapálik translated by Henry Arthur Deuteros Phillips (1885)
“Prose must be written in language that is well understood by its readers. The world would hardly miss those literary works that are mastered by only half-a-dozen pundits.”
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[N]o study is likely to be fruitful of results if carried on without a system. The majority of those who pursue knowledge for its own sake pursue it after an aimless and desultory fashion.”
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838–1894) first seen 1873 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Study of Hindu Philosophy (1873)
“Woman is the crowning excellence of God's creation, the shadow of the gods. Man the god's creation only. Woman is light, man is shadow.”
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay: From Bankim's novel Krishnakanta's Will. Quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2001). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 114-115
“[In the original edition of the novel Sitaram, the Fakir says:] Son, I hear that you have come to found a Hindu dominion; but if you be a slave to popular prejudices you will fail to achieve your aim. If you don't consider Hindus and Muslims as equals, then in this land inhabited by both Hindus and Muslims you will fail to keep your kingdom intact. Your projected Dharmarajya will degenerate into a realm of sin.”
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sitaram, quoted in The Hindu Phenomenon (1994) by Girilal Jain, p. 44
“...this novel was written not to differentiate between Hindus and Muslims...In statesmanship Muslims undoubtedly were better than contemporary Hindus...one who possesses, among other virtues, dharma, no matter if he be a Hindu or a Muslim, is the best.”
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rajsingha, quoted in The Hindu Phenomenon (1994) by Girilal Jain, p. 44
“Do not lose your reverence for the past; it is on the past that you must plant your foot firmly, if you wish to mount high in the future. You are not a race of savages who have no past to remember. You cannot dissever yourselves in a day from the associations and influences of a past which extends over at least five hundred centuries. You cannot annihilate in a day a past national existence which has survived the annihilation of hundreds of empires, of hundred systems of religion, and which has surveyed unconcerned the downfall and ruin of many kindred civilizations. I have to make my warning so emphatic because the general tendency of European scholars, who have so great an influence over you, is to decry your past history, to call for its virtual erasure from your memory, and to lead you in the opposite direction.”
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted in 'The Invasion That Never Was' by Michel Danino (1996)