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“‘[…] an exodus of people to the south [away from the areas under Islamic rule]. Those who remained became more rigid and exclusive, retired into their shells, and tried to protect themselves from foreign ways and influences by hardening the caste system.’ (Nehru 1946: 242)”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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Wikiquote: Jawaharlal Nehru
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quoted in : Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Prakashan Private Limited, 2022 ISBN 9798885750189

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Nehru, Jawaharlal. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Jawaharlal Nehru. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru

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