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From: paturi@harvard.UUCP (Ramamohan Paturi)
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Subject: Re: Some Ideas from India: Laws of
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Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 09:45:17 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 31 09:45:17 1986
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In article <141700067@uiucdcsb>, jayasim@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU writes:
> 
> 	In the base note Ramamohan Paturi asks, "Which Indian does not know
> what Hinduism really is ?"
> 
> 	It is difficult to point out those Indians but a quantative guess
> can be easily made :
> 
> many,
> many, many,
> many, many, many, ...

Sure. Even many Hindus do not know several things regarding Hindu philosophy and
other such things. Also many (even educated) Indians do not know their history,
but for some myths. 

Perhaps, I will put my rhetorical question in proper context so that the 
intended meaning will be clearer: The topic is social problems in Indian 
society. The defensive responses tried to give a glorified picture of Hinduism
to correct the image. Then the (perhaps, sarcastic) question is: Which Indian
does not know what Hinduism "really" is? (You can only fool foreigners at best.)

-Ramamohan
paturi@harvard