„India has been a cauldron of dreams, ideas and aspirations of the humankind and this is a distinctive character of India, and India in that sense represents the world in miniature. If a system can succeed in India, it will indicate the possibility of such success in the world as a whole.“

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— K. R. Narayanan

Shri K. R. Narayanan President of India in Conversation with N. Ram on Doordarshan and All India Radio

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K. R. Narayanan

indischer Politiker und Staatspräsident 1920 - 2005

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„I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want. I dream of an India that is prosperous, strong and caring. An India, that regains a place of honour in the comity of great nations.“

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— Atal Bihari Vajpayee 10th Prime Minister of India 1924 - 2018

Vajpayee during his 1999 Independence Day speech. Quoted from Vajpayee No More: Here Are His Five Most Powerful Quotes https://swarajyamag.com/insta/vajpayee-no-more-here-are-his-five-most-powerful-quotes Swaraja, Aug 16 2018

„So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name.

The problem’s name is God.“

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— Salman Rushdie, buch The Satanic Verses

Quelle: The Satanic Verses

„What India has been, the whole world is now. The whole world is becoming one country through scientific facility. And the moment is arriving when you also must find a basis of unity which is not political. If India can offer to the world her solution, it will be a contribution to humanity. There is only one history — the history of Man. All national histories are merely chapters in the larger one.“

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— Rabindranath Tagore Bengali polymath 1861 - 1941

"Nationalism in the West", 1917. Reprinted in Rabindranath Tagore and Mohit K. Ray, Essays (2007, p. 492).

„China and Arabia are ours, India is ours,
Muslims we are, the whole world is ours...“

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— Muhammad Iqbál Urdu poet and leader of the Pakistan Movement 1877 - 1938

„Sankara was one of the tallest of India's (and the world's) idealist philosophers; his Advaita Vedanta is one of the richest contributions India has made to the treasury of human knowledge.“

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— E. M. S. Namboodiripad Indian politician 1909 - 1998

„What is most important to me is Jawaharlal Nehru's idea of India, India as a pluralist society and polity, an idea which is central to India’s survival, which has held now in the four decades after his death and which is all the more in need of defending.“

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— Shashi Tharoor Indian politician, diplomat, author 1956

Edited transcript of remarks, 11/13/03 Books for Breakfast, "Nehru: The Invention of India" Available Online http://web.archive.org/web/20060927152610/http://www.cceia.org/resources/transcripts/1075.html
2000s

„India is more than a nation state. It is also a unique civilization with philosophies and cosmologies that are markedly distinct from the dominant culture of our times – the West. India’s spiritual traditions spring from dharma which has no exact equivalent in western frameworks. Unfortunately, in the rush to celebrate the growing popularity of India on the world stage, its civilizational matrix is being digested into western universalism, thereby diluting its distinctiveness and potential.“

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— Rajiv Malhotra, buch Being Different

Rajiv Malhotra. Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism, 2011. Synopsis

„Ancient India gave to to the world its religions and philosophies: Egypt and Greece owe India their wisdom and it is known that Pythagoras went to India to study under Brahmins, who were the most enlightened of human beings.“

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— Pierre Sonnerat French botanist (1748-1814) 1748 - 1814

Quelle: quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Tribute_to_Hinduism.html?id=G3AMAQAAMAAJ

„The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.“

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— Shashi Tharoor Indian politician, diplomat, author 1956

The Hindu, "Strengthening Indianness ", Sunday, Jan 19, 2003, Available Online http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mag/2003/01/19/stories/2003011900240300.htm
2000s

„Our India is the best of all countries in the world.“

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— Muhammad Iqbál Urdu poet and leader of the Pakistan Movement 1877 - 1938

„Everybody has their own India and I think it’s a nonsense construction, “a real India”. The real India might be the India of the villages and certainly there’s a lot to be said of the fact that India’s heart lies in its villages. But I live 5 miles down the road from Gurgaon with kyscrapers and software companies and backoffice projects and call-centers. And that’s a very real India too, so I think “real India” doesn’t make much sense-- anymore than the real US with apple pie and Thanksgiving and family around campfires; is that anymore real than Manhattan?“

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— William Dalrymple author and historian 1965

In Amrita Ghosh, "Author in Focus: An Interview with Dalrymple".

„India is an old country, but a young nation; and like the young everywhere we are impatient. I am young, and I too have a dream. I dream of an India strong, independent and self-reliant and in the front rank of the nations of the world in the service of mankind.“

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— Rajiv Gandhi sixth Prime Minister of India 1944 - 1991

On his vision of India, in his address to the Joint meeting of the US Congress in Washington on 13 June 1985, in Emotional Impact: Passionate Leaders and Corporate Transformation (8 November 2000) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=G2QJfyzGRSIC&pg=PA97, p. 97
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„We are very much interested in developing and strengthening our relations with India because India is one of the most important countries in the world. We believe in democracy… I hope my visit will contribute to strengthening our relations with India.“

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— Ariel Sharon prime minister of Israel and Israeli general 1928 - 2014

Quelle: We want Strong Ties with India: Sharon, 9 September 2003, http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/sep/09sharon1.htm

„There are many arguments about the role of religion in the history of this country. But the fundamental fact still remains that India has been a historic home to all the great religions of the world. I believe this pluralism and this ability to have an individual element in your religion is culturally specific to India…I came to India as an orthodox Christian thinking there was only one way to God. I now believe there are many ways to God and that came from living in India.“

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— Mark Tully British journalist 1935

Quelle: " Former BBC-India Chief Highlights Multiple Paths to God http://hafsite.org/media/pr/former-bbc-india-chief-highlights-multiple-paths-god", hafsite.org, Hindu American Foundation (HAF), 19 October 2010