Pageant of India

Francis Yeats-Brown

(From dust cover.) In this book the famous auther of "Bengal Lancer" provides something which is very much needed: a summary of India's history and contribution of culture from the earliest times to the present day. It is not a text book or an outline: " I want," says the author in his preface , to make something that lives and moves, if only for a short time. My aim has been to give my fellow countryman, who have somewhat neglected India ever since Charles II leased Bombay to London merchants for £10 a year, a pageant of India as I see it, a continuity, not an analaysis or a list of dates. "Continuity there is , when you stand back from the picture and see it in its right perspective. Hindu and Moslem cultures met at the top. Akbar's Gate of Victory a Fatehpur Sikiri and the ornate Dravidian temples of South India both proclaim Ramakrishna's saying that 'Truth is one: sages...