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Cingalese history of authenticated by the concurrence of every evidence that can contribute to verify the annals of any country. At the opening of the nineteenth century, the existence of an historical record called the Mahawansa, or Great Dynasty, was known to a handful of Buddhist priests. It was a metrical chronicle, hiding in mystical verse the most astonishing dynastic history of any people, and it covered a period of twenty-three centuries from the year 543 ...
The handy volume entitled History of South-East Asia is an attempt to study the story of penetration and occupation of western nations in South East Asian countries on the one hand and struggle of these nations to preserve their independence on the other. It gives broad idea about their cultures, customs, societies and political systems. Written in a very simple language, the book covers quite a long span of time. It gives clear idea about India’s social and ...
From the preface: "The aim and purport of this edition of the poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge is to provide the general reader with an authoritative list of the poems hitherto published, and at the same time to furnish the student with an exhaustive summary of various readings derived from published and unpublished sources viz. (1) the successive editions issued by the author, (2) holograph MSS., or (3) contemporary transcriptions. Occasion has been taken ...
Assam is in many ways a country of exceptional interest. Hemmed in as India is, by the sea on the South-east and South-west, and by the lofty chain of the Himalayas on the North, the only routes between it and the rest of Asia which are practicable for migration on a large scale, lie on its North-West and North-east confines, the so-called Aryans, and many later invaders, such as the Greeks, the Huns, the Pathans, and the Mughals, entered India from the ...