University of Calcutta. Journal of the Department of Letters

The nature of the early Greek Roman and Teutonic organisations has been so strikingly similar that the Science of Comparative Politics has been able to establish almost beyond doubt the growth of the elements in the Asiatic home of the Aryans before their march in the East and in the West. [...] A study of the earliest organisation of the other branches of the Aryan family reveals the fact that the original leader was the king the priest and the head of the fighing host ; and there is nothing to suppose that the partcular branch that came to India began with a special polity or stepped lightly over some of the stages while retaining fully the wisdom derived from the experience of e [...] On the other hand we cannot assert in favour of it inasmuch as it is advisable to recognise the full value of the historical fact that the social polity begins earlier than the political organisation and that the extent Of development in the former was much greater in the original home of the Aryans than the latter. [...] The universal habit of early migrations along the course of a river as in the case of the ancient Teutons along the Elbe and in the case of the modern Swiss people can be applied to the IndAryans.. [...] In fact the general impression from the Rig Veda is that the property of the family was not the property of the faniily but of the father.