Thread by @Abhayaraam

Any historical wrongdoings by an individual,that individual must be held morally Culpable&There's nothing against the people of that individual's resident state.The historical truth however be Inconvenient&Uncomfortable must never be soft-pedaled.
One's don't subscribe just COPE.

It's counterproductive to quote unapologetic Hindu revivalists(especially as supporting evidence to Unawakened&Colonized minds).
Better to quote from literary works of every acquiescent,who felt compelled to reinvent the wheel,grovelled to Colonialists&Wrote treatise on Hinduism.

In the quest of ephemeral name & fame,a subservient's veneration of Colonialists knew no bounds.The servile ingratiation with Colonialists by lackeys were remunerated & rewarded(fancy titles & designations).Toadies tried to outdo each other in their adulation of the Colonialists.

The Colonialists were ably assisted by a benign armchair scholar, self-proclaimed know-it-all intellect(Stubengelehrter) to render them the service that of a 'subvert' and little did the servile subservients know about their saboteur-in-chief's plan of cultural 'proselytization'.

'Cultural Proselytization'?
Doesn't ring a bell,can be simplified with 'Evangelism'. The author(of Extraordinary Scholar),conferred with title:Commander of the Order of the British Empire cannot be a careless observer,but glossed over the Malicious&Ulterior motives of Max Müller.

Max Müller perceived India as 'Rotten Tree'&Desired that it must fall sooner or later.He construed that India is ripe for Christianity&Committed to his Charge:India has been conquered once,but India must be conquered again & that second conquest should be a conquest by education.

Max Müller never travelled to India,never learnt Vedas in Veda Patashala & his Vedic translations were not peer reviewed by Vedic Pandits.His inclination to learn the Sanskrit language,so that he can read,interpret ancient Vedic Scriptures & translate it with his distorted views.

Max Müller wrote in a self-aggrandizing manner about his obsession with Sanskrit.
He met Eugène Burnouf,who studied Sanskrit first with his father & then with Antoine-Léonard de Chézy.
In Max Müller's words,Burnouf was a Brâhman,a Buddhist,a Zoroastrian & affirmed his hatred too.

Max Müller tried to learn Persian from Rückert,who confessed that he had forgotten his Persian & cannot teach,but can only show how to learn it,since he had learned everything by himself.
There's a method to the madness & then profess that's an art of learning a foreign language.

MaxMüller's acquaintance with DwarkanathTagore had profound significance & felt reassured that Hindus were accepting West & rediscovering their ancient civilization(thru' the prism of the West) & creating liberal nationalism based on Cultural Synthesis(effective Proselytization).

MaxMüller travelled to London in search of Greener Pastures&Most importantly to find a Printing House.He Negotiated&Persuaded East India Co.,to publish the edition of the Sacred Books of the Brâhmans,although they were averse to supporting a work carried out by a foreign country.

Bunsen was anxious to propel Müller's career.Bunsen urged Müller to prepare a paper on relationship btwn Aryan & aboriginal languages of India.
On objection to add Müller's paper in the proceedings,Bunsen declared that his own paper not to be printed unless Müller's was included.

Excerpt:The Englishman would not even consider the possibility that anything from India could enrich his English personality.His problem was what to do with India,an Unwanted,Troublesome&Largely Unintelligible Possession for which his country was becoming politically responsible.

Excerpt:basic reasons for this rejection,the most important being their firsthand knowledge of living Hindus & of their ways.The British in India found them to be so Crude,Ignorant & even Degenerate that they 'could hardly believe that they had been highly civilized at any time'.

Excerpt:Every aspect of Hindu life and culture was taken up by James Mill and described from a standpoint opposite to that of the orientalists, and the garment made by them was turned inside out. It was in demolishing their idea of Sanskrit literature that Mill was most ruthless.

Max Müller wrote a preface(300 pages quarto) to the 1st volume of Rig-Veda.With Bunsen's intervention,court of directors(East India Co.) approved to Print&Publish it in England.He sent a part of prolegomena for Prix Volney contest & Burnouf held that he be adjudged the 1st prize.

Macaulay invited MaxMüller to discuss new regulations for Indian Civil Service.During his membership of the Council of the Governor-General of India(20 years before),he had shown himself to be the most Vigorous&Effectual supporter of English as the medium for education of Indians

1857 mutiny filled Müller with an even greater sense of urgency in pressing the matter on Public&Government.He observed that a man need not have been in India to see that in order to govern People&Gain Confidence&Goodwill of 'Conquered Race',it's necessary to know their language.

Excerpt:'when imperial interests were at stake, he declared, the country had a right to expect imperial(i.e. concentrated action), such as had been taken in Russia, France, Austria & Germany'.
He made a formal appearance as Comparative Philologist to give lectures on Aryan Roots.

Excerpt:most baneful impact of imperialistic Oxford was seen on Indians.
'The manners of young Indians when they arrive at Oxford are generally excellent,but they soon acquire what they consider English manners,Rough&Ready,Bluff&Blunt,and by no means an improvement on their own'.

Source of influence on young Indians.
Excerpt:"The English civil servants and educationalists in India were mostly from one or other of the two ancient universities, and they buttressed their prestige there by fostering an abject worship of Oxford and Cambridge among Indians."

Excerpt:yet the same men, when they went back to India&Enjoyed their Prosperity&Prestige, 'showed an arrogance to their own countrymen which was not less than that of the English rulers'.
This internal dichotomy almost predetermined that Indians from Oxford&Cambridge should be...

sterile adventurers incapable of exercising any influence on Life&Culture of their own people. In fact,some of the most brilliant Indian students of Oxford turned out to be the worst careerists in their country.Even Nehru failed to impinge on Indian Life&Behaviour with his ideas.

Excerpt:as a result of Western education a class of young Indians had already risen in Bengal,who were known as Young Bengal & who were ready to play their part in this movement of Cultural Proselytization,because they're the 'product of English ideas grafted on the native mind'.

Excerpt:Max Müller gave the example of a young Bengali who had just published a book on his travels in Europe, in which he said that 'if it was the will of Providence that a nation would have a yoke on its neck the yoke of the English was the least galling'.

Excerpt:Nothing less than British phlegm, and imperturbability, and constancy, and untiring energy, could have steadily prosecuted the task of consolidating the disjointed masses of India, and casting her into the mold of one compact nation.

They want but the high thoughts seated in a heart of courtesy to attach us to their rule with a feeling of loyalty that, not merely playing around the head, should come near the heart.
Müller quoted Bholanauth Chunder (Hindoo knight-errant might prove to be European in disguise).

Excerpt:Max Müller commented that 'a society leavened by such men will make it possible for the Government to save hundreds and thousands in soldiers and policemen, and millions in wars and suppression of rebellions'.

Wilson,a Boden Prof. of Sanskrit at Oxford, died on May 8,1860.
Boden(East India Co.) found a Professorship of the Sanskrit Language,being of opinion that knowledge of Sanskrit will be a means of enabling his countrymen to proceed in 'Conversion of Natives to Christian Religion'.

When Wilson's funeral was over,Müller announced himself as a candidate for the vacant Chair to secure a Higher Income&Position at Oxford. As its salary was btwn £900 & £1000 a year(it was tenable for life),it was looked upon as a very lucrative living at the disposal of the Univ.

For 6 months & more a vigorous election campaign was carried on,with manifestos,handbills,letters to newspapers & above all,personal canvassing by means of letters & word of mouth.
In a conscious way,Max Müller had his eyes on this post as the culmination of his career at Oxford.

The contest btwn Müller & Williams was no longer academic,but an election campaign of parliamentary type,it was highly emotionalized & religious stake involved.
The Professorship is not for Oxford alone.
It's not for The Continent & America.
It's for India.
It's for Christianity.

One glowing recommendation.
Excerpt:'Your work will form a new era in the efforts for the Conversion of India, and Oxford will have reason to be thankful that, by giving you home, it will have felicitated a work of such primary and lasting importance for the Conversion of India'.

Excerpt:It was in this atmosphere of hustings that the election for the Professorship was held on December 7, 1860. The voting was 833 for Moner Williams and 610 for Max Müller. The defeat was a severe disappointment to Müller and his friends, and they all held that the scales...

were tipped against him on irrelevant personal, religious and political grounds.

Müller himself wrote to his mother 'The opposite party made it a political and religious question, and nothing could be done against them. All the best people voted for me, the Professors almost...

unanimously, but the vulgus profanum made the majority'.

Excerpt:But the implied charge of un-English religion, and even of irreligion, is at once the most serious, the most gratuitous, and the most cruel. If the country clergy have been persuaded, as has been wittily said, to..

smell rationalism, in the dots over the ü(u-umlaut) in Mr. Müller's name, I cannot hope to dissipate the deserted odour. I can only submit that there is not the slightest particle of ground for the suspicion, not the faintest show for the pretext that Mother Church is in danger.

Below an excerpt of a letter from Dean (then Canon) Stanley on Max Müller's defeat for Sanskrit Professorship:
You can still by your writings show what the Christian religion may be to India and the world, as you could not do before, lest you should be suspected of unworthy...

motives. You can still show us how the Christian scholar and philosopher can put to silence by Christian magnanimity "the ignorance of foolish men." [Can one not hear the beloved little Dean's inimitable chuckle as he penned these words ?].

**Small correction**
The author(of Scholar Extraordinary)

Müller's next move:
Excerpt:to have a share in the fleshpots of Oxford succeeded, though not without some characteristically Oxonian opposition. In October 1865 Max Müller applied for the post of the Oriental Sub-Librarian at the Bodleian, finding that his friend Coxe, who was...

the Librarian, could not secure the services of any other Orientalist. With the unanimous consent of the curators his name was forwarded for consideration by the Convocation, and the date of the election was announced. At once letters began to appear in the press against him...

and for another aspirant.

However, this time Müller was elected, and he enjoyed the work very much. But the double work proved too much for his health,
and he resigned the sub-librarianship after about a year and a half, In 1868 the university on its own initiative recognized...

the merits of Max Müller in a striking manner. 'It abolished the Taylorian Professorship of Modern European Languages, and created in its place expressly for him a new chair of Comparative Philology on a higher salary'. This was the first professorship created by the university..

itself. 'All the previous professorships were established either by royal benefactions or private endowments'. This relieved Müller of the duty of lecturing on the European languages, and left him free to pursue his own subject.

For the next eight years Max Müller's life...

and career at Oxford ran smoothly. But at the end of 1875 he himself raised a storm about his career at Oxford, and on December 1 sent in his resignation of the Professorship of Comparative Philology to the Vice-Chancellor.

Max Müller proved that he was not a gracious Stubengelehrter.

Excerpt:'I tell you viva voce why I have finally made up my mind to leave Oxford Clerical intrigues and petty jealousies, alas' were partly the reason'.

Even this was not the whole story. What brought his sense of...

grievance against Oxford to a head and finally induced him to act was a particular personal matter--the decision of the Hebdomedal Council to put up the name of Monier Williams to the Convocation for the honorary degree of D.C.L. This was the only time in his whole career that...

Max Müller acted from personal pique, which showed that though intellectually he had outgrown his disappointment over the Boden Professorship, it still rankled in his mind emotionally.

You poor(Du arme) Max Müller!, you could have made good use of the fawning adoration(by your docile supporters) for the Boden Professorship of Sanskrit election campaign at univ. of Oxford.
Excerpt:one of the associations of the new monotheistic Hindus, formally thanked Müller...

& wrote:'By publishing the Rig-Veda at a time when Vedic learning has,by some sad fatality,become almost extinct in the land of its birth,you have conferred a boon upon us Hindus,for which we cannot but be eternally grateful'.
As if that were not enough,with blissful ignorance...

of Müller's abetment(to Proselytization) which led to the downfall of Vedic learning & chaos ensued in India,Swami Vivekananda,leader of the new Hindu revivalist movement in Bengal,paid public tribute to Müller in one of his books.
Excerpt:Prof. MaxMüller is the leading figure...

among Western Sanskrit scholars. The Rig-Veda,upon which nobody could set his eyes as a whole,has now been beautifully printed, & can be read by the general public,as a result of an enormous expenditure on the part of the East India Co., & years of labour on the part of the Prof.

I,for one,am utterly dismayed by SwamiVivekananda's approbation of MaxMüller's work on Vedas & his glowing tribute to Müller,just after the first & only in person meeting.

This historical event bears testimony to the facts that appearances are often deceiving & trust,but verify.

Below is an excerpt of a conversation that happened in May1896.
Swami Vivekananda: When are you coming to India?
Max Müller(teary eyed response): I would not return then; you would have to cremate me there.

Müller proved that he's a manifestation of duplicity & excelled in the..

art of deception with relative ease.

Max Müller was a natural silver-tongued liar, one of the greatest con artists of the 19th century & one of the founding fathers of 'Cultural Proselytization'.

Here's an excerpt from Müller's letter(written in August1856) to Karl Josias..

von Bunsen: 'After the last annexation the territorial conquest of India ceases-what follows next is the struggle in the realm of religion and of spirit', in which, of course, centres the interests of the nations. 'India is much riper for Christianity' than Rome or Greece..

were at the time of St. Paul. 'The rotten tree has for some time had artificial supports, because its fall would have been inconvenient for the Government'. But if the 'Englishman comes to see that the tree must fall', sooner or later, then the thing is done, and he will..

'mind no sacrifice either of blood or of land. For the good of this struggle I should like to lay down my life, or at least to lend my hand to bring about this struggle'.

Here's an excerpt from Max Müller's letter(written in December1866) to his wife:I hope I shall finish that..

work,and I feel convinced,though I shall not live to see it,'that this edition of mine and the translation of the Veda' will hereafter tell to a 'great extent on the fate of India',and 'on the growth of millions of souls' in that country. It is the root of their religion,and to..

show them what that root is,is,I feel sure,the only way of uprooting all that has sprung from it during the last 3,000 years.

Here's an excerpt from Max Müller's letter(written in December1868) to George Douglas Campbell:The missionaries have done far more than they themselves..

seem to be aware of, nay, much of the work which is theirs they would probably disclaim. 'The Christianity of our nineteenth century will hardly be the Christianity of India. But the ancient religion of India is doomed-and if Christianity does not step in,whose fault will it be?'

**Small correction**
Monier Williams

Max Müller in his quest to assert a racial superiority over the subjugated Indians concocted this cockamamie theory of Aryan Invasion & Aryan Race.

Excerpt:what then,you may ask,do we find in that ancient Sanskrit literature and cannot find anywhere else? My answer is,We find..

there the 'Aryan man, whom we knew in his various characters, as Greek, Roman, German, Celt and Slav, in an entirely new character, a character, he explained, which was the complement of that of the Northern Aryan'.

Max Müller elaborated the idea in one of his lectures.

Excerpt:all then that I wish to put clearly before you is this,that the 'Aryan man,who had to fulfil his mission in India,might naturally be deficient in many of the practical and fighting virtues,which were developed in the Northern Aryans' by the very struggle without which..

they could not have survived,but that his life on earth had not therefore been entirely wasted. 'His very view of life,though we cannot adopt it in this Northern climate,may yet act as a lesson and warning to us,not,for the sake of life,to sacrifice the highest objects of life'.

Max Müller's view of 'Aryan Race'.

Excerpt:these two sciences, the Science of Language and the Science of Man, cannot, at least for the present, be kept too much asunder, and many misunderstandings, many controversies, would have been avoided, if scholars had not attempted to..

draw conclusions from language to blood, or from blood to language. When each of these sciences shall have carried out independently its own classification of men and of languages, then, and then only, will it be time to compare their results, but even then, I must repeat, what..

I have said many times before, it would be as 'wrong to speak of Aryan blood as of dolichocephalic grammar'.

Max Müller's view of 'Aryan Speech'.

Excerpt:how then shall we tell from language 'what races had to learn the language of their Aryan conquerors or their Aryan slaves'?

'There is no Aryan race in blood, but whoever, through the imposition of hands, whether of his parents or his foreign masters, has received the Aryan blessing, belongs to that unbroken spiritual succession which began with the first apostles of that noble speech', and continues..

to the present day in every part of the globe. Aryan, in scientific language, is utterly inapplicable to race. It means language and nothing but language, and if we speak of Aryan race at all, we should know that it means no more than x+ Aryan speech.

Here's a skewed view of 'Aryanism' by the author(Scholar Extraordinary).

Excerpt:only the Hindu was regarded as Aryan, and as the historical memory was wholly lost, 'India was regarded as the only Aryan land'. This Aryan pride was also seen, though not in so intolerant a form,..

in Persia as well before the spread of Islam, and it has been resuscitated there in our time.
This Aryan pride ran in the blood of all Hindus and, transformed into a dogmatic megalomania and xenophobia, it enabled them not only to survive under foreign rule, but also to despise..

their foreign rulers, whether Muslim or British. 'None the less, it hung in the air without any historical basis'. 'Comparative Philology supplied that basis', and 'brought into existence' a more rational and also a more 'self-conscious Aryanism among the modern Hindus'.

The planted story of Aryan Invasion & Aryan Race provided a smokescreen for the British empire to sow the seeds of visceral hatred(Aryan vs. non-Aryan) which started to bear fruit with growing estrangement of members from Hinduism & hastened the Cultural Proselytization mission.

Excerpt:In 1874, a Bengal writer had an article in the Indian Mirror, a very influential news paper edited by an eminent Bengali, in which he brought out the difference that Sanskritic studies in Europe and Comparative Philology had made to the British attitude towards Indians...

He said that at the beginning of their rule the British regarded the people of India as little better than niggers, having a civilization perhaps a shade better than that of the barbarian, but that the discovery of Sanskrit had entirely revolutionized the course of thought and..

speculation. 'We were niggers at one time. We now become brethren'.

How did Max Müller sum it up?

Excerpt:thus the religion, the literature, the whole character of the 'people of India are becoming more and more Indo-European'.

And that's how all fawners were hornswoggled.

What's in it for them(British empire)?
Excerpt:'with regard to what is of the greatest interest to us', their scholarship, it is true that the 'old school of Sanskrit scholars is dying out, and much will die with it which we shall never recover', but a new and most promising..

school of Sanskrit students, educated by 'European professors, is springing up', and they will, nay, to judge from recent controversies, they have already 'become most formidable rivals to our own scholars. They work for us, as we work for them'.

Max Müller postulated the Aryan migration theory without any archaeological survey and historical proof. Somehow he traveled back in time & determined the exact year of the first Aryan stock separation to be at least 3000 BCE which later broke up into seven or more nationalities.

Excerpt:two millions of human beings, however, are much more difficult to move from one country to another than two hundred; and it is, at all events, quite open to us to imagine that the Aryan migrations took place by tens or hundreds instead of by millions. If one missionary...

is able, 'in twenty years, to impose his peculiar, and perhaps not quite grammatical, dialect on the population of a whole island', 'why should not one shepherd, with his servants and flocks, have transferred his peculiar Aryan dialect' from one part of Asia or Europe to another?

Excerpt:if,on the contrary,we consider that the 'Aryan conquerors of India came clearly from the north along the rivers of the Panjâb',while before that time they must have dwelt for a certain period together with the people who spoke ancient Persian,and,before that time again,..

with people who became the founders of the first European dialects,we find it difficult to resist the 'conviction that some half-way point from which the North-Western and South-Eastern tribes could have diverged may mark the original home of the Aryans'.

Nice sketch,MaxMüller!

Max Müller's 'logic' to bolster the supposition that Aryan centre was somewhere in Asia.

Excerpt:what exact spot the Aryan centre has to be placed geographically, the answers will vary very considerably. 'Somewhere in Asia,' used to be the recognised answer, and I do not mean..

to say that it was far wrong; only we must not expect, in a subject like this, our much-vaunted mathematical certainty.

There's absolutely no dearth of insanity with Max Müller.
Excerpt:there may have been a time when scholars were so much impressed with the primitiveness of..

Sanskrit that they would have 'preferred India as the cradle of the Aryas', and Sanskrit as the mother of Greek, Latin, and the other Aryan dialects. But that time, if it ever existed, is long past. We know that the 'Aryas were originally strangers in India', and that, if..

primitiveness of language could settle the home of those who speak it, Iceland would be the original home of the Scandinavians, and the Danube that of all the Germans.

The final inference of a crude hypothesis by Max Müller.
Excerpt:it is wonderful enough that we should have discovered that our own language, that Greek and Latin, that Slavonic and Celtic, are closely connected with the languages now spoken in Armenia, Persia, and India. It is..

wonderful enough that out of the words which all these languages, or, at all events, some members of its two primitive branches, the North-Western and South-Eastern, share in common, we should have been able to construct a kind of mosaic picture of the fauna and flora of the..

original home of the Aryas, of their cattle, their agriculture, their food and drink, their family life, their ideas of right and wrong, their political organisation, their arts, their religion, and their mythology.

Max Müller opined that the actual site of Aryan is trivial.

Excerpt:most of the Aryan nations in later times were proud to call themselves children of the soil, children of their mother earth, autochthones. Some thought of the East, others of the North, as the home of their fathers;none of them, so far as I know, of the South or the West.

New theories, however, have their attractions,and I do not wonder that some patriotic scholars should have been smitten with the idea of a German, Scandinavian, or Siberian cradle of Aryan life. I cannot bring myself to say more than Non liquet. But if an answer must be given..

as to the place where our Aryan ancestors dwelt before their separation, whether in large swarms of millions, or in a few scattered tents and huts, I should still say, as I said forty years ago, 'Somewhere in Asia,' and no more.

MaxMüller surmised in the dark that 'mythical' Aryan ancestors met in 2000 BCE.
Excerpt:it is well known that there are some striking coincidences between the names of certain rivers in the Avesta and the Veda. We find-
Sarasvatî, the Sursuti in India == Haraqaîti, the Arachotus;

Sarayû, the Goggra in India == Haraeva or Haroyu, the Heri-rud;

Rasâ, a northern river == Rañghâ, the Araxes;

Sapta sindhavah, the seven rivers of the Panjâb == Hapta hiñdu, India.

These names, to which some others might be added, are not borrowed from Sanskrit into Persian,..

nor from Persian into Sanskrit. They must have existed therefore before these languages became permanently distinct. They may for a time have retained their appellative power, and been given independently to rivers known to the Aryas in Persia and India.

Max Müller embraced appalling naivety and to hide his shortcoming he remained a deceitful, duplicitous & unbridled liar.

Excerpt:but the fact remains-at least I see no escape from it-that the 'ancestors of the Indian and Persian Aryas had reached the land of the Seven Rivers',..

namely the north of the Panjâb, before they became permanently separated.
Here, therefore, within sight of the 'Indus and its tributaries, the undivided South-Eastern Aryas spoke a language more primitive than Sanskrit and Zend'. What that language was we can to a certain..

extent discover by selecting words common to Sanskrit and Zend. The date of that language, at the very lowest estimate, must have been about 2000 B.C.

Max Müller drove a wedge between social groups in India with his Aryan Invasion & Aryan Race theory. He was too impertinent and committed the blasphemy of Hindu Gods with apparent impunity.

Excerpt:the worship of Siva, of Vishnu, and the other popular deities, is of the same,..

nay, 'in many cases of a more degraded and savage character than the worship of Jupiter, Apollo, and Minerva; it belongs to a stratum of thought which is long buried under our feet';it may live on, like the lion and the tiger, but the mere air of free thought and civilized life..

will extinguish it. A religion may linger on for a long time, it may be accepted by the large masses of the people, because it is there, and there is nothing better. But when a religion has ceased to produce defenders of the faith, prophets, champions, martyrs, it has ceased to..

live; in the true sense of the word, and in that sense the old, orthodox Brahmanism has ceased to live for more than a thousand years.

MaxMüller connived with the British empire(especially Missionary agents) to orchestrate the cultural proselytization missions in India.

Excerpt:I do not at all like to go to India as a missionary, that makes one dependent on the
parsons;nor do I care to go as a Civil Servant,..

as that would make me
dependent on the Government. I should like to live for ten years
quite quietly and learn the language,try to make friends,and then see whether I was fit to take part in a work, by means of which the old
mischief of Indian priestcraft could be overthrown..

and the way
opened for the entrance of simple Christian teaching,that entrance
which this teaching finds into every human heart, which is freed from
the ensnaring powers of priests and from the obscuring influence of
philosophers.

Max Müller accomplished mission objectives..

without physically being there in India. He served as a shadow agent of the British empire to execute covert operations(cultural proselytization missions) with missionary agents stationed in India, who had their eyes and ears everywhere across the Indian subcontinent. He framed..

the nature of work & classification of missionaries:
(1) Parental missions
Excerpt:among uncivilized races the work of the missionary is the
work of a parent;whether his pupils are young
in years or old,he has to treat them with a
parent's love, to teach them with a parent's..

authority; he has to win them, not to argue with them.
(2) Controversial missions
Excerpt:the case is different with the controversial
missionary,who has to attack the faith
of men brought up in other religions,
in religions which contain much truth,though
mixed up with much..

error. Here the difficulties are immense, the results very discouraging.
(3) Indirect influence of Christianity
Excerpt:but there is a third kind of missionary activity, which has produced the most important results, and through which alone, I believe, the final victory will be..

gained.
Whenever two religions are brought into contact,when members of each live together in
peace,abstaining from all direct attempts at
conversion,whether by force or by argument,
though conscious all the time of the fact that
they and their religion are on their trial,..

that
they are being watched, that they are responsible for all they say and do--the effect has
always been the greatest blessing to both. It
calls out all the best elements in each, and at the same time keeps under all that is felt to be
of doubtful value, of uncertain truth.

The ruthless British empire with a shadow agent(MaxMüller) and his trusted followers served as a tool in its quest to conquer India through Cultural Proselytization Missions.

One of the Müller's trusted followers, Keshub Chunder Sen, a 'religious and social reformer'. He led a..

monotheistic movement, very largely modelled on Christianity.

Excerpt:in 1878 there came a crisis in Sen's triumphant religious career. An offer came from an Indian prince,the Maharaja of Cooch Behar,to marry Sen's eldest daughter, who was not yet quite fourteen years old. For..

the sake of succession the marriage had to be according to Hindu rites. Now,idolatrous rites and child marriage were the very things which Sen as a religious and social reformer had opposed. He had made it a rule for his followers not to observe the former in any circumstances,..

and not to marry their daughters before they had completed their fourteenth year. In fact, an Act passed in 1872 had legalized marriages performed according to Brahmo rites and fixed the minimum age for it as fourteen.

But Sen fell in with the proposal, and his daughter was..

married to the prince in February 1878, and some subterfuges were adopted to satisfy the conscience of Sen. At once a storm broke over his head. Many of his followers had already been offended by his dictatorial ways, and now they accused him of apostasy. They seceded from his..

church and founded a parallel one. The quarrel was continued with extreme bitterness, and Sen's plea that 'he had given his daughter in marriage to the prince by hearing an adesh or command from God', with whom he had communed over the question, was treated as 'pure opportunism'.

Excerpt:Sen wrote to Max Müller that the 'hostility and the attacks of his detractors had actually helped the progress of his church'. 'Our influence spreads on all sides, and there is far greater enthusiasm among us now than in any previous period in the history of our church'.

In one sense this was true, for Keshub Chunder Sen was giving a form to his movement, now called the New Dispensation, which in its public expression fell in line with the traditional Vaisnavism of Bengal. This consisted in going through Calcutta and other towns singing and..

dancing to the accompaniment of drums, exhibiting the maudlin religious enthusiasm of that sect. This is the exhibition, given on a very miniature scale, which now evokes admiration or amusement in Oxford Street, and which I have also seen in the United States. It was a sort of..

High Church movement among the Hindu Theists, and naturally it drew the condemnation of the seceding Theists who were very much Low Church. It scandalized the supporters of Sen in England, and it was described as 'a combination of dervish dances and Roman Catholicism'.

Keshub Chunder Sen travelled to England in 1870. He gave a lecture on Christ and Christianity.

Excerpt:when every individual man becomes Christian in spirit, repudiate the name, if you like, when every individual
man becomes as prayerful as Christ was, as loving and forgiving..

towards enemies as Christ was, as self-sacrificing as Christ was, then these little units, these little individualities,will coalesce and combine together by the natural affinity of their hearts;and
these new creatures, reformed, regenerated, in the child-like and
Christ-like..

spirit of devotion and faith, will feel drawn towards each other, and they
shall constitute a real Christian church, a real Christian nation. Allow me, friends, to say, 'England is not yet a Christian nation'.

The Brahmo Samaj,a native Theistic Church of India,was founded by Rammohun Roy in 1828. When
the schism took place,the original Samaj was called Adi-Brahmo Samaj,
while the progressive party,under Keshub Chunder Sen was distinguished by the name of Brahmo Samaj of India. After..

the political marriage fiasco of his eldest daughter in 1878, Keshub Chunder Sen had fallen out with Brahmo Samaj of India and later started his own society 'New Dispensation'. His monotheistic movements were largely modelled on Christianity,possibly influenced by his erstwhile..

mentor Rammohun Roy's 'Propaganda'('Precepts of Jesus').

Excerpt:confine my attention at
present to the 'task of laying before my fellow-creatures
the words of Christ', with a translation from the English
into Sungscrit, and the language of Bengal. I feel
persuaded that by..

separating from the other matters contained in the New Testament, the moral precepts
found in that book, these will be more likely to produce
the desirable effect of improving the hearts and minds of
men of different persuasions and degrees of understanding
. For, historical..

and some other passages are liable
to the doubts and disputes of free-thinkers and anti-christians,especially miraculous relations,which are much less wonderful than the fabricated tales handed
down to the native of Asia, and consequently would be
apt,at best,to carry little..

with them. On the
contrary,moral doctrines,rending evidently to the
maintenance of the peace and harmony of mankind at
large,are beyond the reach of metaphysical perversion,and intelligible alike the learned and to the unlearned.
This simple code of religion and morality is..

so admirably calculated to elevate men's ideas to high and liberal notions of God, who has equally subjected all living creatures,
without distinction of caste,rank or wealth,to change,
disappointment,pain and death,and has equally admitted
all to be partakers of the bountiful..

mercies which he has lavished over nature, and is also so well fitted to regulate the conduct of the human race in the discharge
of their various duties to God, to themselves, and to
society, that I cannot but 'hope the best effects from its promulgation in the present form'.

Rammohun Roy did not stop short in promoting the Christianity. He responded to a series of questions posted by Henry Ware(Harvard College, Cambridge
, U.S.), an Unitarian minister, on the
subject of the Prospects of Christianity and the means of promoting its reception in India.

Rammohun Roy garnered high praise from Henry Ware.

Excerpt:permit me, Sir, to express the very high gratification which I have derived from discussions of the most important subjects of Christian Theology, and interpretations of the Jewish and
Christian Scriptures, from the..

'pen of a native of India, bearing such marks of clear and enlightened views, and of extensive and
accurate learning, as would do honour to the best educated
European divine'.

Rammohun Roy prepared his response to Henry Ware's questions and there was one that stood out..

Excerpt:there is one
question at the concluding part of your letter, (to wit,
"Whether it be desirable that the inhabitants of India
should be converted to Christianity; in what degree
desirable, and for what reasons ?") which I pause to answer, as I am led to believe, from..

reason, what is set forth in scripture, that in "every nation he that feareth
God and worketh righteousness is accepted with him," in whatever form of worship he may have been taught
to glorify God. Nevertheless, I presume to think, that
Christianity, if properly inculcated,..

has a greater tendency
to improve the moral, social, and political state of
mankind, than any other known religious system.

Below an excerpt of Rammohun Roy's response to the question: would 'intelligent Hindoos believe & receive the Christianity of Unitarians rather than Trinitarians?

Excerpt:I repeat what I stated in answer to a question of a similar nature, put to me by
Mr. Reed, a gentleman of..

Boston, viz. "The natives of Hindoostan, in common with those of other countries, are divided into two classes, the ignorant and the enlightened. The number of the latter is, I am sorry to
say, comparatively very few here: and to these men the
idea of a triune-God, a man-God,..

and also 'the idea of
the appearance of God in the bodily shape of a dove,
or that of the blood of God shed for the payment of a
debt, seem entirely Heathenish and absurd,and consequently their sincere conversion to [Trinitarian] Christianity must be morally impossible'. But..

'they would not
scruple to embrace, or at least to encourage, the Unitarian system of Christianity, were it inculcated on them
in an intelligible manner'. The former class, I mean the
ignorant, must be enemies to both systems of Christianity, Trinitarianism and Unitarianism...

As they feel
great reluctance in forsaking the deities worshipped by
their fathers for foreign Gods,in substituting the blood of God for the water of the Ganges as a purifying substance,so the idea of an invisible Being as the sole object
of worship,maintained by Unitarians,..

is foreign to their
understanding. Under these circumstances it would be
advisable, in my humble opinion, 'that one or two, if not
more gentlemen, well qualified to teach English literature and science, and noted for their moral conduct, should
be employed to cultivate' the..

understandings of the
'present ignorant generation,and thereby improve their
hearts, that the cause of truth may triumph over false religion', and the desired comfort and happiness may be
enjoyed by men of all classes."

A pertinent question on aid be given by Unitarians to..

the cause of Christianity in India, with a reasonable prospect of success.

Excerpt:in answer, I beg to refer you to my reply to the pre
ceding question, and only add here, that every one who
interests himself in behalf of his fellow-creatures, would
confidently anticipate..

the 'approaching triumph of true
religion, should philanthropy induce you and your friends
to send to Bengal as many serious and able teachers of
European learning and science and Christian morality',
unmingled with religious doctrines, as your circumstances
may admit, to..

'spread knowledge gratuitously among the
native community', in connexion with the Rev. Mr. Adam
whose 'thorough acquaintance with the language, manners,
and prejudices of the natives, renders him well qualified
to co-operate with them with every prospect of success'.

Max Müller failed to take a long, hard look in the mirror, but found a vulnerable chink in the armour of Rammohun Roy.

Excerpt:now it may sound strange, but I feel convinced
that Rammohun Roy himself, when, in his controversies with his English friends, 'he fortified himself
..

behind the rampart of the Veda,had no idea of what
the Veda really was'. Vedic learning was then at a low ebb in Bengal,and Rammohun Roy had never passed through a regular training in Sanskrit.

(MaxMüller to Rammohun Roy) Et tu, Stubengelehrter.

Excerpt:Rammohun Roy had been..

brought up in the belief that the Veda was the word of God,that it contained a primeval revelation, that it was free from all the
defects of human authorship. When therefore his friends or the missionaries pressed on him the claims
of the Bible,as likewise an infallible book,..

he found
himself between two infallible authorities,and naturally preferred his own.

Rammohun Roy's mother, was a devout Hindu,did not give up on her pious observances and set out on her last pilgrimage to Shree Jagannatha,where
she died.

MaxMüller extolled Rammohun Roy for..

his apostasy of Hinduism. Müller did not miss an opportunity to vilify Hindu God & slyly blasphemed against Shree Jagannatha.

Excerpt:with such self-denying devotion did she conform to the rites of the Hindu religion, that she would not
allow a female servant to accompany her..

to Juggernaut,or any other provision to be made for her comfort or support during the journey. When at Puri,she occupied herself in sweeping 'the temple of the uncouth idol!' Her son knew all this,and he bore with her,as she had borne with him. Perhaps he knew that the 'hideous..

idol which she worshipped in the fetid air of his temple', Juggernaut,as we call it,was originally called Jagannatha,which means Lord of the World;and that He,the Lord of the World,the true Jagannatha,'would hear her prayers,even though addressed to Juggernaut,the uncouth image'.

The wet-behind-the-ears literates knew nothing about the two-faced MaxMüller and his role,that of a mercenary for the British empire to destroy the cultural roots of Hinduism in ancient India.

Here's an excerpt from the letter addressed to MaxMüller by a callow literate or one..

of the indoctrinated conformists.

Excerpt:'Professor Max Müller is seriously ill and not able to attend to any letters'. When I saw these lines tears trickled down my cheeks unconsciously. When I showed the card to my friends who spend the last days of their life like mine in..

reading the Bhagavatgitha and some such religious books, they were also very much overpowered with grief.
Last night when we were going to Sri Parthasarathy Swami temple as usual for devotions, one thing suggested to me, and that was that I should have some special service..

performed to God (Sri Parthasarathy Swami, the presiding deity in the temple here) by the temple priest in your name for your complete recovery. When I expressed my suggestion to my friends that followed me to the temple they were unanimous in their opinion that it was the best..

that can be done for a gentleman like you who has sacrificed his health and wealth to the good of India and the Hindus in particular.

This Incident would serve as a veritable proof that MaxMüller's Ideological & Intellectual Subversion(cultural proselytization) came to fruition.

References/Bibliography:
1.Scholar Extraordinary(Nirad C. Chaudhuri)
2.The life and letters of the Right Honourable Friedrich Max Müller(Volume I)
3.The land of the Veda(William Butler)
4.Travels of a Hindoo[Volume I(Bholanauth Chunder)]
5.The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

6.Biographies of words and the home of the Aryas(Max Müller)
7.Chips from a German Workshop[Volume IV(Max Müller)]
8.On Missions(Max Müller)
9.The English works of Raja Rammohun Roy
10.Chips from a German Workshop[Volume II(Max Müller)]

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