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UNTAUGHT HISTORY: DEFENDER OF HINDUISM, RIDICULED BY CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES:
- Charles Stuart (1758–1828) An officer in the East India Company Army wrote:
“Whenever I look around me, in the vast region of Hindoo Mythology,
I discover piety in the garb of allegory: and I see Morality, at every turn, blended with every tale; and, as far as I can rely
on my own judgment, it appears the most complete and ample system of Moral Allegory that the world has ever produced.”

Source: British Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance 1969
Author: David Kopf ISBN-10: 0520006658
https://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Ori.../dp/0520006658


Charles Stuart (c. 1758 – 31 March 1828) was an officer in the East India Company Army and is well known for being one of the few

British officers to embrace Hindu culture while stationed there, earning the nickname Hindoo Stuart. He also wrote books and

several newspaper articles extolling Hindu culture and tradition and urging its adoption by Europeans settled in India, and

deploring the attitudes and activities of the Utilitarians and missionaries who deprecated Indian culture.

In his teens, Stuart left Ireland for India, where he remained for the rest of his life. He served in the army and starting as a

cadet, he rose through the ranks to become a Major-General. His last command was the Saugor Field Force.

Stuart enthusiastically embraced Hindu culture and championed the same in his writings and discourse, which earned him the nickname

Hindoo Stuart. V. C. P. Hodson's biography of Stuart mentions that he "had studied the language, manners and customs of the natives

of this country with so much enthusiasm, his intimacy with them ... obtained for him the name of Hindoo Stuart".

Stuart took to Hinduism both in its religious aspects and as a way of daily life. He adopted many Hindu customs and routines of

daily life, including bathing in the Ganges at Calcutta every morning.