Stanley Lane-Poole (1854–1931) British orientalist
Lanepoole, quoted in K.S. Lal, The Legacy of Muslim Rule in India
[Guha, Ramachandra, Captive ideologues, http://ramachandraguha.in/archives/history-beyond-marxism-and-hindutva-the-telegraph.html, The Telegraph, July 26, 2014]
Stanley Lane-Poole (1854–1931) British orientalist
Lanepoole, quoted in K.S. Lal, The Legacy of Muslim Rule in India
“The history of India is a history of mortal conflict between Buddhism and Brahmanism.”
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) Father of republic India, champion of human rights, father of India's Constitution, polymath, revolutionary…
As quoted in The Radical in Ambedkar: Critical Reflections
David Mumford (1937) American mathematician
[David Mumford, Book Review, Notices of the AMS, March 2010, 57, 3, http://www.ams.org/notices/201003/rtx100300385p.pdf]
Banda Singh Bahadur (1670–1716) Sikh military commander
Life & exploits of Banda Singh Bahadur by Sohan Singh
“The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history.”
Will Durant book The Story of Civilization
Will Durant, The Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage page 459.
The Story of Civilization (1935–1975), I - Our Oriental Heritage (1935)
Context: The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti (1941) Indian archaeologist
Chakrabarti, D. K., 1997. Colonial Indology: Sociopolitics of the Ancient Indian Past. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
Mark Tully (1935) British journalist
Source: " Former BBC-India Chief Highlights Multiple Paths to God http://hafsite.org/media/pr/former-bbc-india-chief-highlights-multiple-paths-god", hafsite.org, Hindu American Foundation (HAF), 19 October 2010