maulana azad
Culture and civilisation are two such concepts, which are devoid any concrete definition. The word 'culture' broadly covers the sum total of a nation's aesthetic and intellectual achievements. India from time immemorial has been regarded as a land of composite culture c prosperity—thus attracting intellectuals and adventurers alike—may they be the Romans, who traded with the Tamil kingdoms of the south or Christian missionaries of the 1st Century A.D. landing in Kerala or persecuted forefathers of present day Parsis who sought asylum in Western coast of India.
Thus, culture can be regarded as the widening of mind as well a spirit. The essence of our composite culture through the ages has been capacity to absorb various streams of cultures. The core around which other cultures took shelter and eventually got absorbed has resulted the 'compositeness' of our culture.
The essential feature of this composite culture is broad-based, which focuses mainly on tolerance, adaptiveness with an unique individuality. It is, therefore, amazing to note that same essence that existed before many millennia has continued till to and is continuing.
Very few things in history are more astonishing than the wonderful stability of the social structure in India, which has withstood the test time. It has withstood foreign cultural invasions, because it always sot to absorb them as well as tolerate them.
As one turns the pages of Inc history, one observes that culturally nothing alien was exterminated; an equilibrium was always reached with essence as core even with alien, by extracting their goodness.
India through the ages was never isolated from the rest of the world. It came into contact with almost every great civilisation the world witnessed, however, it never met with the same fate as other great civilisations did, like the ancient Egyptians or the Mesopotamians or the Romans. All this could be boldly attributed to the 'dynamism' of our great past—this ultimately gave rise to
Thus, culture can be regarded as the widening of mind as well a spirit. The essence of our composite culture through the ages has been capacity to absorb various streams of cultures. The core around which other cultures took shelter and eventually got absorbed has resulted the 'compositeness' of our culture.
The essential feature of this composite culture is broad-based, which focuses mainly on tolerance, adaptiveness with an unique individuality. It is, therefore, amazing to note that same essence that existed before many millennia has continued till to and is continuing.
Very few things in history are more astonishing than the wonderful stability of the social structure in India, which has withstood the test time. It has withstood foreign cultural invasions, because it always sot to absorb them as well as tolerate them.
As one turns the pages of Inc history, one observes that culturally nothing alien was exterminated; an equilibrium was always reached with essence as core even with alien, by extracting their goodness.
India through the ages was never isolated from the rest of the world. It came into contact with almost every great civilisation the world witnessed, however, it never met with the same fate as other great civilisations did, like the ancient Egyptians or the Mesopotamians or the Romans. All this could be boldly attributed to the 'dynamism' of our great past—this ultimately gave rise to