“Parsi culture is also an alien culture, but alien in name only, for, tolerant from the first, it has got blended with Indian culture almost beyond recognition.”

— Harsh Narain

Source: Myths of Composite Culture and Equality of Religions (1990), p.28.

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“Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.”

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“Every Messianic movement known to history has arisen in a society that has been subjected to severe stress of contact with an alien culture—involving military defeat, epidemic, and acculturation”

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“But many other Indians are cast in that mould, Indians in their basic culture though their high culture is western.”

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“The problem they had to solve was the same as any messianic movement: how to exist with an alien culture yet remain spiritually autonomous.”

Peter Farb (1929–1980) American academic and writer

Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
Context: The Ghost Dance made its unfulfillable promises at a time when the Indians were ready to rebel. The teachings of the Native American Church spread at a time when the Indians were ready to admit defeat.... The problem they had to solve was the same as any messianic movement: how to exist with an alien culture yet remain spiritually autonomous. The solution had been to borrow freely from White culture while salvaging what is considered important in Indian religious thought.<!-- p. 269

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Herbert Marcuse book One-Dimensional Man

Source: One-Dimensional Man (1964), pp. 56-57

“Parsi culture is also an alien culture, but alien in name only, for, tolerant from the first, it has got blended with Indian culture almost beyond recognition.”

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