"In India everything is done differently from the rest of the world. Nothing will ever change this."
— Babur, First Mughal Emperor
"There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended, but by the offender himself. The first blow dealt the French monarch proceeded from the nobility, not from the peasants. The Indian revolt does not commence with the Ryots, tortured, dishonored and stripped naked by the British, but with the Sepoys, clad, fed, petted, fatted and pampered by them."
"If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India."
— Max Mueller
"There does not exist a history of ancient India. Their books contain no historical data whatever, except for a few religious books in which historical information is buried under a heap of parables and folk-lore, and their buildings and other monuments also do nothing to fill the void for the oldest among them do not go beyond the third century B.C. To discover facts about India of the ancient times is as difficult a task as the discovery of the island of Atlantis, which, according to Plato, was destroyed due to the changes of the earth... The historical phase of India began with the Muslim invasion. Muslims were India's first historians."
— Les Civilisations de L'Inde, 1826
"India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only."
"This Place does have a certain reputation. Full of beggars and thieves, where people only eat curry and disease is rampant."
"Oh, that's just a stereotype."
*Cue army of aggressive beggars*
"Oh, that's just a stereotype."
*Cue army of aggressive beggars*
— Joseph Joestar and Mohamed Avdol, Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Stardust Crusaders
