TCD MS 10516 folio 48 verso
[19th September 1916] they know that he was one of the most brilliant critics and historians that ever graced the English language. I cannot refrain from mentioning another instance of the extraordinary ignorance displayed by the British Officer in India. Another Major, – I like to choose men of seniority and experience, – who had served for many years in a Hindu regiment and the finest soldier I have known, once informed me and endeavoured to persuade me with the obstinacy of ignorance, that the Hindus believed in one God, that the religion of his men was a pure monotheism. He had never heard of Siva or Brahma or Vishnu; the Rig-vedas or the Puranas were words to him without the slightest meaning. He flatly denied that Hinduism was the most elaborate pantheism; in fact he admitted he did not understand what