The Dawn and Dawn Society’s Magazine November 1910

Even after the dOvnf411 of Vijay'anagar thexountry did noti8o THE DAWN AND DAWN SOCPETY'S MAGAZINE pass entirely into the hands of the Muhammadans but remained in the hands of Hindu chiefs called Polygars and of such Hindu Royal Houses as the Pandasand Nayaks of Madura and later on of the Maratha Rajas of Tanjore and the Woodeyar Rajas of Mysore. [...] Then by the time that the Mughal Empire reached its greatest extent the Marathas rose in the South and the Sikhs and Jats in the North and in the course of half a century established their rule which lasted until the times of the British conquest over the greater portion of the country. [...] Such a history would be a synthesis and resume of all the past developments of the Indian peoples capable Of endowing them with a new strength and energy to grapple with and solve the new problems of the modern world and achieve fresh conquests in regions of the Ideal for the spiritual advancement of the race and of Humanity. [...] Deakin characterises as the " boldness of the designs and the massive executions " of these hydraulic engineering projects of Ceylon which he declares; " are still the wag" der of the modern engineer " let us turn to the whole-heartedness of the irrigation policy pursued by the ancienSinhalese monarchs. [...]. In the religious works of fhe period several of which I had the pleasure of seeing t Vide p. 189 ante ' The above publication bears the following title--"The Cauvery Kistnah and Godavery—Being zt Repo.rt on the Works constructed on these -rivers for the irrigation of the provinces of Tanjore Guntoor Masulipatam and Rajahmundry in the presidency of Madras—Published by order of the