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Terry Eagleton in conversation with Roger Scruton

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The Importance of Culture

The Asiatic Society of Bengal was founded in 1785 by British civil servants working for the East India Company. They came with their enlightenment attitudes that this is culture too and did a lot to save Sanskrit texts. This kind of universal education enabled them to see India as another high culture, which they had to not only respect but immortalise.

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