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“Being unable to check the foreigner and the conqueror [the Muslim conquests], Indo-Aryan culture adopted a defensive attitude. It retired into a shell in its endeavours to protect itself. It made its caste system, which till then had an element of flexibility in it, more rigid and fixed. It reduced the freedom of its womenfolk.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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Wikiquote: Jawaharlal Nehru
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page 157

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

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