Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c11.16

c11.16

I have made a long digression for considering the views of Mr. Wales as these represent the latest phase of a tendency to minimise the part played by the Hindus in the cultural evolution of South-east Asia. It has led to many theories which seek to revolutionize our whole conception of the culture and civilization of South-east Asia on extremely insufficient grounds. The common factor among them is an attempt to trace the origin of the culture of South-east Asia to all possible and impossible sources, other than Indian, and the impatient search for the classification of Indian colonies into an eastern and western zone on their supposed differences in reaction to the parent culture of India.