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INDIA'S KARMA
of India, which was an admirable example of the way in which national karma should not be regarded. It was. said that the national karma of India was that it should be conquered--- obviously true, else the conquest of India would not have taken place--and that it should therefore accept its lot of service, and not try to change any of the existing conditions-as obviously wrong. The knower of karma would say: The Indians were not the original possessors of this country; they came down from Central Asia, conquering the land, subduing its then peoples, and reducing them to servitude; during thousands of years they conquered and ruled, and they generated they generated a national karma. They trod down the conquered tribes, and made them slaves, oppressing them and taking advantage of them. The bad karma thus made brought down upon them in turn many invaders. Greeks, Mughals, Portuguese,
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