Ayodhya: a contrarian tale

On 2 June 1853, a London writer mailed his friend in the north, asking: “Why does the history of the East appear as a history of religions?” He then digressed about the nature of oriental rule—basing his account on the travels of François Bernier in Mughal India—and how its secret was, in his peculiar words, the absence of private property.

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