Mark Twain, American novelist and writer, stated that "India is the credit of the human race, birthplace of human speech, mother of history, grandmother of legend, and great grandmother of tradition; and our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only." Romain Rolland, French writer and Nobel laureate, observed that “ there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men have ...
