Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c10.2

c10.2

In the first lecture I have drawn a general picture of the culture and civilization of the indigenous peoples with whom the Hindu colonists first came into contact. They had hardly emerged from the Neolithic state and resembled to a large extent the peoples whom the Aryans met in India. I propose to discuss in this lecture how these primitive peoples were affected by the elements of Hindu culture that were deeply implanted in their soils by the Hindu Colonists.