"The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage."

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What we deplore is not that the gate of western knowledge was thrown open to Indians, but that such knowledge was imported to India at the sacrifice of our own cultural heritage. What was needed was a proper synthesis between the two systems and not neglect, far less destruction, of the Indian base.

— Syama Prasad Mukherjee