. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. pread of Buddhism—Asokas council—Buddhist fluctuations—Decline of Budd-hism in India—Alexander the Great and India—Alexanders retirement—Seleucus andChandra Gupta—Megasthenes—Western influence on India—Mongolian conquerors—TheJats—First Mahometan invasion—Sultan Mahmoud—Mohammed Ghori— AUah-ud-din-Khilji—Tamerlane Baber Kingdom of Madura—Empire of Vijayanaga—Conquests of Babe
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. pread of Buddhism—Asokas council—Buddhist fluctuations—Decline of Budd-hism in India—Alexander the Great and India—Alexanders retirement—Seleucus andChandra Gupta—Megasthenes—Western influence on India—Mongolian conquerors—TheJats—First Mahometan invasion—Sultan Mahmoud—Mohammed Ghori— AUah-ud-din-Khilji—Tamerlane Baber Kingdom of Madura—Empire of Vijayanaga—Conquests of Baber— Reign of Akbar-Akbars civil and religious policy-Shah Jahan—The Taj Mahal-Conquests of Aurungzebe—Rise of the Mahrattas—Nadir Shah—The Nawabs andMaharajahs. NDIA, says Sir AV. W. Hunter, - forms a great museum of races, in wliicli we can study man from liis lowest to his highest stages of culture. So, also, the liistory J of India is like an epitome of a museum of history, for it has successively passed through nearly all stages, and xonie in contact with nearly all ^-reat conquering powers. The Russian is still liold back, but who can say how near the attack may be ?. EARLY INHABITANTS AND HISTORY 01 INDIA. 245 When we first discern anything of human life in India, we findremains of a palaeohthic people in the Nerbuddah valley, where theiragate knives and rough flint implements have been unearthed, prehistorictogether with remains of extinct species of elephant and hip- races,popotamus. Neolithic tribes, using polished flint implements, succeededthem, destitute of all metals. Then later, approaching the liistoricperiod, there are rude stone circles, upright slabs, and mounds, all ofthem sepulchral, the remains in which show that the makers had ironweapons and earthenware vessels, and wore ornaments both of copperand gold. Some of the later of these burial-places have yielded Romancoins. These peoples have left no other sign of the
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