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Absorbing other faiths

In The Hindu View of Life, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Hindu philosopher and former President of India, proposes a relevant history of South Asian Hinduism where neighboring faiths were systematically accepted, absorbed, and slowly whittled into the core religion.
Historicity aside, the point is insightful, and provides an interpretation of some mythological stories. For example, he says that [...]