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“Arrian mentions with admiration that every Indian is free. With them, as with the Lacedemonians, he says, no native can be a slave; but unlike the Lacedemonians, they keep no other people in servitude.”

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The History of India, by Mountstuart Elphinstone (Indica, ch. X and Ephinstone's India p. 239).

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