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Herbert Hope Risley
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“The racial theory of Indian civilization alludes to racial attitudes of whites towards blacks, found in the segregated southern United States after the Civil War and in South Africa, as a constant of history, or rather as a transcendent fact immune to historical changes that is as operative in the Vedic period as it is now.”
Herbert Hope Risley (1851–1911) said by 1911 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted from Malhotra, R., Nīlakantan, A. (Princeton, N.J.). (2011). Breaking India: Western interventions in Dravidian and Dalit faultlines
“This sole possible description of the Dasa nose, however, like Pinocchio's nasal organ, was to have an expanded life of its own. By 1891, H. H. Risley, who was compiling his ethnological material on Indian tribes and castes, was able to say that "no one can have glanced at the Vedic accounts of the Aryan advance without being struck by the frequent references to the noses of the people whom the Aryans found in possession of the plains of India [whom] they spoke of as 'the noseless ones'". The solitary nasal reference had suddenly become a frequent one.”
Herbert Hope Risley (1851–1911) said by 1911 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted from Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 3
“Ex Occidente Imperium ; the genius of Empire in India has come to her from the West ; and can be maintained only by constant infusions of fresh blood from the same source.”
Herbert Hope Risley (1851–1911) first seen 1908 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1908. quoted in Chakrabarti, D. K., 1997. Colonial Indology: Sociopolitics of the Ancient Indian Past. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.128
“No one can have glanced at the literature of the subject and in particular at the Vedic accounts of Aryan advance, without being struck by the frequent references to the noses of the people whom the Aryans found in possession of the plains of India. So impressed were the Aryans with the shortcomings of their enemies’ noses that they often spoke of them as “the noseless ones” and their keen perception of the importance of this feature seems almost to anticipate the opinion of Dr Collingnon, that the nasal index ranks higher as a distinctive character than stature or even the cephalic index itself. In taking their nose, then, as the starting point of our present analysis we may claim to be following at once the most ancient and the most modern authorities on the subject of racial physiognomy’.”
Herbert Hope Risley (1851–1911) first seen 1891 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (H. H. Risley, 1891, 249-50) quoted in (Trautman, Aryans and British India, 2004, 202). Trautmann responds: ‘In doing so, he has of course greatly overstated the Vedic evidence; Risley’s frequent references to the abori…