Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c7.33

c7.33

How these individuals, unaided by state or other organizations at home, succeeded not only in establishing their political authority over the numerous foreign peoples in such distant lands, but also in transforming their entire cultural life, is the problem that should next engage our attention. Some writers, possessing intimate knowledge of primitive tribes in Asia and Africa, have suggested the different stages in this process of Hindu Colonization on the analogy of what happened in later and more recent times when Islam gradually established itself among them. According to this view, which seems highly probable, we may reconstruct the process of Indian Colonization somewhat as follows.⁶