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India -- pt. 2: Foundations of Hinduism

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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The Bahavad Gita - A History of Life

The bahagavad gita is widely studied and taught throughout india to day. It contains many famous aphorisms that sort of incapsulate this attitude towards life, such as "a man's own self is his friend" The rama yana has some very strange parallels to the robin hood legend which also centers on a hero who must be saved from an evil power.

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