cover image: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal  1950 (Letters)

Premium

20.500.12592/frrs8s

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal 1950 (Letters)

1951

But othe whole after the bases of an Indian civilisation were laid some 3 000 years ago by the fusion of the culture-worlds of the speakers of the Austric the Dravidian and the Aryan languages there has been a continuous and a general enrichment of this civilisation and extension of it century by century through the arrival of later incomers. [...] In the course of their advance to the east along the Ganges Valley the fusion of the Aryan-speaking and the non-Aryan (Dravidian and Austric) speaking peoples was taking place ; and the want of linguistic unity and cohesion amoug the pre-Aryan peoples of India combined with the organising capacity of the Aryaspeakers gave to the Aryan speech its great opportunity. [...] STUDY OF THE NON-ARYAN ELEMENTS (AUST RIC AN D DRAVIDIAN) IN INDIAN CIVILISATION In the study of the origins of the composite Hindu civilisation of ancient and medieval India the elements contributed by the various 'languagculture ' groups of diverse race—the Austric the Dravidian and the Aryan speakers—have already attracted the attention of scholars. [...] Moreover as they arrived late in the Indian scene their greatest periods were also late—after the 14411 century A. D. when the Turk and Afghan the Rajput and the North Indian Musalman the Oriya and the Bengali the Maratha and the Kannadiga and the Telugu and the Tamilian were engaged in a sanguinary drama of war and peace and in the work of cultural endeavour and assimilation in which the [...] THE MONGOLOIDS IN ANCIENT INDIA: THE KIRATAS We are not concerned in India with the fortunes of the Chinese the Man and Karen and the Thai or Siamese groups of the Mongoloid peoples excepting the case of a group connected with the Siamese the Ahoms who acquired the status of the ruling tribe in Assam for a number of ceturies.
history
Pages
138
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i unknown view
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
Kirāta-Jana-Krti the Indo-Mongoloids: Their Contribution to the History and Culture of India
143-236 Suniti Chatterji view
Iconographic Aspects of an Illuminated Manuscript of the Astasāhasrikā Prajnāpāramitā in the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal Calcutta
237-iii Monotosh Mookerjee view
Two Inscribed Images of Imadpur
247-ii R.C. Majumdar, J.N. Banerjea view
Value and Importance of Manuscripts in Olden Times
253-262 Chintaharan Chakravarti view
Reviews of Books
263-269 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

Related Topics

All