India: A Million Mutinies Now - pg. 81

How much of that complicated Hindu theology - evolved layer upon layer over millennia - had already gone down the drain in Bombay? For me, in Trinidad, only two generations away from India - though the Hindu epics still had a charge - whole segments of Hindu theology had been lost; later, parts of it were to be recovered, but only as art-history. Without its setting and its earth, Hindu theology seemed to blow away, as it had blown away after centuries from the cultures of Java and Cambodia and Siam: irrecoverable now, the emotions and the elaboration of belief that had supported the building of Angkor.