The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c26.2
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c26.2
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In this chapter we shift our point of view. We no longer try to transfer ourselves to ancient India and see for ourselves what is going on there: we ask instead what impression this magnitude, India, made upon another people—the Hellenes on the shores of the Mediterranean, the progenitors of our modern European rationalistic civilisation. India is for us now a remote country, 2800 miles away.