This work summarises India's intellectual history, which in its various aspects
has been the subject of my studies for slightly more than half a century. Its
sets forth the mental development of the most easterly branch of Aryan
civilization since it entered India by land, till it came in contact by sea with
the most westerly branch of the same civilization after a separation of at least
3000 years.
'The range of our knowledge of India's past is so extensive that the information
supplied by this book could only cover the main and essential points. Its
contents are meant. Within a small compass, to direct the