Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East (Vol. I: Champa; Vol. II: Suvarnadvipa) v2.c22.118

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Space forbids us to indicate many important features of the present volume. Judging from his volume on the *Champa* and the present volume on the *Suvarṇadvīpa* in which he has utilized every important source of historical information and presented his materials with full documentation, we have no hesitation in saying that Dr. Majumdar has laid the foundations of research in this important branch of historical investigation in spite of the heavy pressure of administration and other duties and in particular inspite of the "general apathy and ignorance" in India "about this important branch of study." Dr. Majumdar expects to give us in the next few years to come his Third Volume dealing with Kāmboja (Cambodia and Siam) and his Vol. IV of the series containing a general view of Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East. We trust that Indian scholars who have now been roused from their apathy and ignorance in many a branch of Oriental learning will enter in great numbers the uninvestigated fields of research laid bare by Dr. Majumdar and record more evidence from Indian and 'Greater-Indian' sources bearing on the history of the Ancient Indian Colonies and their relations to the mother country. The work done by Dutch Savants in unfolding the history of Ancient culture and civilisation of India being in a foreign tongue is not sufficiently known in this country.