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Identifier: worldhistoricala00gilb (find matches)
Title: The world: historical and actual
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Gilbert, Frank, 1839-1899. (from old catalog)
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Chicago, Fairbanks & Palmer publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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NATIVE LIFE IN INDIA. pire at its best. With the Himalaya mountains onthe north, and the Indian Ocean on the south, it isa land by itself, rich in resources and under a highstate of cultivation in many parts. Such a countrycontributes greatly to the wealth of England, bothby its imports and its exports, furnishing the rawmaterial and consuming the manufactured article,all to an extent which may fairly entitle India to the designation of thebackbone of Brit-ish prosperity. By a carefulcomparativestudy of lan-guages it has beenascertained thatthe present greatnations of theworld came, forthe most part,from the Aryanrace, which canbe traced to In-dia. The Brah-min, the Greek,the Roman, the double that of the Roman em- ; Englishman, the German, the Yankee, all belong (400) -&K
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£1 5 f BRITISH INDIA. 403 to the same stock. But the connection is too re-mote and obscure to be traced in this volume. It isenough for our purpose to follow the footprints ofhistorical devel-opment. India is splen-did, yet mournfulin ruins. Fallentemples and de-caying pagodasattest a past whichis sealed from thevision of history.Eventually theirmysteries may beexplored and thegold of facts sep-arated from thedross of fiction.Now those mon-umental ruins aresurrounded by thewall of mystery. The first ap-pearance of Indiain history datesfrom B. C. 327,when Alexanderthe Great attemp-ted its conquest.His intrepid armywas flushed withvictory over thePersians, and eag-er for • moreworlds to con-quer. India waslittle more to theGreeks than avague rumor, afabulous land ofwealth and lux-ury, a veritableEldorado. Butthe march itselfwas exhaustive.

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