Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c7.65

c7.65

Wales, and others who think like him, seem to be obsessed with the great importance of the Neolithic culture of the peoples with whom the Hindu colonists first came into contact, and attach a far greater value to it in their historical evolution than the influence which centuries of close and intimate contact with the Hindus had exercised upon them. This conscious or unconscious attempt to exaggerate the local factor and belittle the importance of Hindu element, and thereby change the entire conception of the value and importance of Hindu culture in South-east Asia, seems to be a characteristic of certain classes of writers.