This work was written to prove, mainly on philological grounds, the antiquity of the Dravidian race in India. The work aims to point out a connection existing between the several tribes that apparently are widely different from each other he has also tried to indentity the so called Pariahs of Southern India with old Dravidian mountaineers and to establish their relation to the Bhars, Brahuis, Mhars, Mahars, Paharias, Paravari, Paradas and others, these formed ...
On the Weapons, Army Organisation, and Political Maxims of the Ancient Hindus
Gustav Oppert brings together in this book, for the first time, rare and unpublished material from two of the most important treatises on the subject Nitiprakasika, and Sukraniti. Nitiprakasika has remained utterly unknown and no authentic version of the Sukraniti was available for a long time. The Nitiprakasika is ascribed to Vaisampayana and gives, among other valuable matter, a full ad descriptive account of the Dhanurveda, and contains in fact the only ...
