Athelstane King's mother and sister wear saris and his sister paints Athelstane's tikal before the family presides at Diwali which celebrates Laxmi, consort of Vishnu. The festival also includes a play about Krishna and Ravana.Thus, the Second British Empire differs considerably from the First.
Unfortunately, the nearest mandir to Lancaster is in Preston, just over twenty miles away. If it were nearer, I would visit it more often although we can meditate anywhere of course. Reality is here, not in a building elsewhere. John 4. 21.
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Hi, Paul!
It's not surprising to me that the English/Angrezi conquerors of India were eventually "Indianized" in both bad and good ways, at least to an extent. It's very often the fate of conquering invaders to be absorbed or assimilated by the peoples they overran.
There were exceptions, of course, but the conquerors usually needed centuries to "make over" the peoples they conquered before new languages and cultures displacing the originals could take firm root. One example being how the Roman Empire "Romanized" what is now France, Iberia, Romania, etc. A second being how Spain Hispanicized much of the Americas.
Sean
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