Rig Vedic India

This work is a cultural history of India as depicted in the Rgveda, which is examined in the light of the results of modern Geological, Archaeological, Historical and Ethnological investigations, and drawn from a comparative study of the early civilizations of the Deccan, the ancient Aryana, Babylonia, Assyria, Asia Minor, Egypt and Per-historic Europe.

The Rgveda, being admittedly the oldest record of the Aryans, furnishes the datum line in historical stratigraphy, and the author has tried to decipher and read the fossils that have come to his notice. It is a humble attempt by the learned author to treat the subject of ancient Aryan history, strata by strata, consistently with and in the order and sequence of the most ancient records available.

The book has 26 chapters, besides Bibliography and Index, Some of the more important chapters are, the Antiquity of the Rgveda and Physical features and climate of Ancient Sapta-Sidhu, Geological Evidence, Rgvedic Antiquity, Deccan or Southern India in Rgvedic times, the Aryan Tribes of Ancient Sapta-Sidhu, the theory of Aryan Cradle in Central Asia, Arctic Home of the Aryans, Indo-Aryan influence on Babylonia, Ancient Egypt and Western Asia, Examination of Tilak’s theory of the Arctic cradle of the Aryans, etc. The book will be of tremendous interest to scholars and student of Vedic literature and history.