* If that suggestion be true, then, it is strange to appropriate their work as a part of Southern culture or output. The Indian National Congress was founded, among other things, on enlightenment'ish ideas, and founded by a British company man (so to say). One does not therefore claim that the successful Indian freedom struggle and the victory that it represented for humanity is a product, a feature, of British culture!
[WS:] Is not it the case that the greatest work of art resulted from the interaction of many different cultures? It seems that mixing and interaction of cultures is a recipe for creativity. Cultural solipsism produces output that is sterile and boring and eventually forgotten.
Wojtek