A Meeting held at the Bombay University Senate in 1913, among other things, set a blueprint of sorts to destroy the time-honoured system of scholarly education that produced Pandits of the highest order.
World War I showed how the modern West was no different from the Huns and Vandals in committing untold savageries after looting colossal wealth across the globe. Yet, the Neo-Indian is enthralled by its glamour and glitter.
The Neo-Hindu was so enamoured and brainwashed by the European model that he knows no way of reform except that propagated by Western Civilisation.
We begin a new series documenting the emergence of what was once known as Neo-Indians, a class of Western-educated Hindus.
In the concluding episode of this series, Pramatha Nath Bose invokes the appalling consequences of the erosion of the Hindu spiritual civilisation by inroads made into it by Western materialism.
In the second episode of this series, Pramatha Nath Bose gives us a splendid contrast between the West whose civilisation is fundamentally animalistic whereas the roots of the Sanatana civilisation are deeply spiritual.
Pramatha Nath Bose, the father of Indian Geology was also a devout Sanatani. In this forgotten essay written in 1914, he warns how Western materialism was assaulting and distorting the profound Hindu system of ethics.