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John Faithfull Fleet
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John Faithfull Fleet C.I.E (1847 – 21 February 1917) was an English civil servant with the Indian Civil Service and became known as a historian, epigraphist and linguist.
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It is indeed very questionable whether the ancient Hindus ever possessed the true historical sense in the shape of the faculty of putting together genuine history on broad and critical lines.
quoted in Sandeep Balakrishna, Stories From Inscriptions: Profound Real-life Tales from Hindu Cultural History, 2022
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Category:1847 births
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