Lanterna Rally

Author: C. A. R. Janvier

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-19

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9781331779209

Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the Missions in India: Under the Care of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church India is geographically the Italy of the Asiatic continent Historically, too, she is Italy's counterpart in at least one respect. What the one, with her bountiful streams and sunlit plains, was to the comprising adventurers from northern Europe, that was the other to the successive hordes of hardy invaders, who, looking across at her fertile plains from the bleak table-lands of Central Asia, swept over her lofty mountain barriers and took possession of her treasure Kolarian, Dravidian, Aryan, Persian, Grecian, Bactrian, Parthian, Scythian, Hun and Afghan, Tatar and Mongolian - all these and others have had their share of India's spoils, some scarce more than touching her borders, others leaving their permanent impress on her life and character. He is a rash man who would attempt to tell the exact details of these successive invasions. The Kolarians, as exemplified to day in the Santals, for instance, are often spoken of as aborigines; but the probability is that the real aborigines were Negritos, specimens of which race art still to be found in the Andaman Islands, and that the Kolarians were themselves invaders, coming through the northeast passes - preceded possibly by still other invaders from the same direction. The northwest passes were thereafter the way of access the first to use them being the Dravidians. The when and the whence of their movement no one knows: though as to the whence, it may be safe to include them under the general name Turanian, and to point to significant similarities between certain Dravidian dialects and modern Korean. Next came the Aryans. From their original home, probably in the region south of the Aral Sea, they had divided into two great streams, one flowing northward and westward to people the European continent, and the other pouring southward, and subdividing into Iranian Persian) and Indian branches. The time, too, of the movement into India is a matter of conjecture. History there is none. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.