The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c5: Chapter II

The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c5

Language: English

Chapter II

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By E. J. Rapson, M.A., Professor of Sanskrit in the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of St John’s College

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| Varieties of race, speech, and culture . . . . . . . . | 37 |
| Western and eastern invaders . . . . . . . . . | 38 |
| Natural and ethnographical divisions . . . . . . . . | 40 |
| The seven chief physical types . . . . . . . . . | 40 |
| The four families of speech . . . . . . . . . | 48 |
| The caste-system . . . . . . . . . . | 53 |

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B. SOURCES OF HISTORY

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| Prehistoric archaeology . . . . . . . . . . | 56 |
| Ancient literatures . . . . . . . . . . . | 56 |
| Foreign writers . . . . . . . . . . . | 58 |
| Inscribed monuments and coins . . . . . . . . . | 60 |
| The ancient alphabets . . . . . . . . . . | 62 |
| Progress of research . . . . . . . . . . | 62 |

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CHAPTER III

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THE ARYANS

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By P. Giles, Litt.D., Master of Emmanuel College, and Reader in Comparative Philology in the University of Cambridge

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| The Indo-European languages . . . . . . . . . | 65, 71 |
| The Wiros and their original habitat . . . . . . . . | 66 |
| Their migrations . . . . . . . . . . . | 70 |
| Evidence of the inscriptions of Boghaz-köi . . . . . . . | 72 |
| Īrānians and Indo-Āryans . . . . . . . . . | 73 |
| Āryan names in the inscriptions of Mesopotamia . . . . . . | 76 |

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CHAPTER IV

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THE AGE OF THE RIGVEDA

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By A. Berriedale Keith, D.C.L., D.Litt., Regius Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology in the University of Edinburgh, formerly Scholar of Balliol College, Oxford

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| The hymns of the Rigveda . . . . . . . . . | 77, 108 |
| Geography . . . . . | 79 |
| Fauna; peoples . . . . . . . . . . . | 81 |
| Social organisation . . . . . . . . . . | 88 |
| Origins of the caste system . . . . . . . . . | 92 |
| Political organisation . . . . . . . . . . | 94 |
| Warlike and peaceful avocations . . . . . . . . | 98 |
| Dress, food, and amusements . . . . . . . . . | 101 |
| Religion . . . . . | 103 |
| The beginnings of philosophy . . . . . . . . . | 107 |
| Chronology of Vedic literature . . . . . . . . | 110 |