# Quote — V. S. Naipaul, India: A Wounded Civilization

> While the Ottomans moved into South-East Europe, the Moghul invasion of India destroyed much of Hindu and Buddhist civilization there. The recent destruction by Moslems in Afghanistan of colossal Buddhist statues is a reminder of what happened to temples and shrines, on an enormous scale, when Islam took over.

- Author: [V. S. Naipaul](https://www.leafyquotes.com/v-s-naipaul.md)
- Book: [India: A Wounded Civilization](https://www.leafyquotes.com/v-s-naipaul/india-a-wounded-civilization.md)
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## More from this book

> India is for me a difficult country. It isn’t my home and cannot be my home; and yet I cannot reject it or be indifferent to it; I cannot travel only for the sights. I am at once too close and too far.

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> The key Hindu concept of dharma — the right way, the sanctioned way, which all men must follow, according to their natures — is an elastic concept. At its noblest it combines self-fulfillment and truth to the self with the ideas of action as duty, action as its own spiritual reward, man as a holy vessel.

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