Abstract
THIS book is interesting as symptomatic of the trend of opinion among certain sections of educated India. Its aim is to smooth away distinctions and to emphasise similarities and assimilations in the numerous elements of which the Indian peoples and Indian cultures are composed. Thus, while one school of students turns from the Indo-Aryan aspect of Indian civilisation to seek for the contribution of non-Aryan peoples, the author of this volume is concerned to show, without disregarding the non-Aryan element, that there has been a fusion which has evolved a type of civilisation common to the whole country sufficient to justify its treatment as a unit in the history of the social and intellectual development of mankind. This involves the assumption of a spirit of conciliation and compromise pervading relations among the various peoples of India. It is scarcely necessary to point out that this view of Indian history involves considerable re-reading of the evidence and a revision of accepted theory which are not likely to prove wholly convincing.
Racial Synthesis in Hindu Culture.
S. V.
Viswanatha
By. (Truber's Oriental Series.) Pp. vii + 234. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd.; New York: E. P. Duttonand Co., 1928.) 10s. 6d. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 122, 532 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122532b0
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