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The History of India

Tahqiq ma li-l-Hind

Al-Biruni·Arabic

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A study of Indian religion, science, and philosophy of remarkable fairness, written after al-Biruni learned Sanskrit. He insisted on reporting beliefs as their holders understood them, a rare model of describing a culture not one's own.

I shall not produce the arguments of our antagonists in order to refute such of them as I believe to be in the wrong. My book is nothing but a simple historical record of facts. I shall place before the reader the theories of the Hindus exactly as they are.

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