Barbarians Quote by Will Durant

“I know it is said in missionary meetings that we conquered India to raise the level of the Indians. That is cant. We conquered…

— William Joynson-Hicks

“Islamic conquest " the greatest historical event in the gates of greatness. No event resembles it in the history of East and West, the…

— Ali Al-Tantawi

“This is the secret of the political history of modern India. Weakened by division, it succumbed to invaders; impoverished by invaders, it lost all…

— Will Durant

“Out of all its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate…

— Anonymous

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a…

— Goldwin Smith

“The India that the British East India Company conquered was no primitive or barren land, but the glittering jewel of the medieval world.”

— Shashi Tharoor

“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within”

— Will Durant

“By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle East was divided between…

— Jim Al-Khalili

“When your empire grows out of soil fertilized with the blood of a people, it must sustain its power with their continued bloodshed.”

— Luvvie Ajayi

“Islam came to Kerala not by the sword, as it did in northern India, but through traders, travellers and missionaries, who brought its message…

— Shashi Tharoor

The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.

— Nelson A. Miles

“As the Moslems advanced into India native culture receded farther and farther south; and towards the end of these Middle Ages the finest achievements…

— Will Durant