The Hindu civilization is one of the oldest. Of the contemporary cultures of Central Asia and the Middle East there is no trace, barring some scattered relics of their past. The Sumerians, Semites, Hittites, Egyptians, Babylonians, Elamites, Greeks, Romans, are all gone for good, buried deep under the layers of time. The Hindu religion and culture had to be dynamic to have survived, had to be dynamic to have survived, even withstood the assaults of Islam and ...