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I quoted you. Read the preface of the book, and the story number 52. How is that "pretty innocuous", and especally a book that is aimed at kids?

No wonder caste discrimination has carried on for centuries in India with learned people like you able to charitably justify the oppression.




>I quoted you.

No you did not. Nowhere did I say that the books written by Dinanath Batra were pretty innocuous. If you had quoted me, it would've been quite obvious I didn't say what you claimed I did, because a proper quote would look like:

>>I found some pages from the series but they're pretty innocuous.

"some pages from the series". It doesn't get any clearer than that.

>Read the preface of the book, and the story number 52. How is that "pretty innocuous", and especally a book that is aimed at kids?

I already summarized what the preface says in my original comment. And #52 is not in the pages I linked to. The only ones are #55 and the first half of #56. #55 has a Mughal emperor praising a Hindu man for giving the emperor's daughter an Islamic education despite his religion, and #56 starts off with the son of a Naval officer in a war between England and France before it is cut off. I say again, that just these one-and-a-half stories that I have access to are pretty innocuous.

>No wonder caste discrimination has carried on for centuries in India with learned people like you able to charitably justify the oppression.

Incidentally, the rest of the comment that you're misquoting clarified pretty clearly that I'm against the story that the Aljazeera video talks about. But you do you; don't let facts and reading comprehension get in the way of your spiel and slander.




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