A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c6.20

c6.20

‘Attention has been concentrated too long on the North, on Sanskrit books, and on Indo-Aryan notions,’ said Vincent Smith. ‘It is time,’ he added, ‘that due regard should be paid to the non-Aryan element.' And, before Smith, an Indian scholar, Professor Sundaram Pillai, had remarked: 'The scientific historian of India ought to begin his study with the basin of the Krishna, of the Kaveri, of the Vaigai, rather than with the Gangetic plain, as has been now long, too long, the fashion.'