During the age of the European Renaissance, a new people was discovered. Not the Aztecs, or the Maya, or the Inca, but a mysterious people with an intriguing language who had once dominated Europe its

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India has 2,000,000 million gods, and worships them all, wrote Mark Twain, following his 1896 speaking tour of British India. In religion other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.