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K.D. Sethna's book takes up 'from an Indian Point of View" a cluster of important historical questions about India’s most ancient past and formulates fresh answers to them in great detail with the temper of a scrupulous scholar. At one time modern historians had no doubt that Aryans who were the authors of the Rigveda had invaded the Indian subcontinent in the middle of the second millennium B.C. and overrun a primitive Dravidian population. After the ...
The author has cast his net widely to cover various kinds of 'antiquities' and he has dealt with them in as original a way as possible so that new aspects start up. The solutions found cast an unexpected light making old problems come with a novel shape.;The articles covered in this book are: 1. The Location of Kamboja; 2. The Aryans, the Domesticated Horse and the Spoked Chariot-Wheel; 3. Rama, Ravana, Lanka: Legitimate Reconstructions and Dubious Speculations; ...