INDIA THREE THOUSAND YEARS AGO - PB

About the book:-The author reveals that through this little work which, in association with your Lordship’s name, and at the request of the Mechanics’ Institutions in 1858 before which it was delivered, he now lay before the public, he has endeavoured to glean from the oldest compositions of the Hindus, the Vedas, and especially from the first of them, the Rig Veda, — of which two of the others, the Sáma and Yajur are principally extracts, while the fourth, the Atharvan , is of much later origin, -- the general information which they contain concerning the earliest state of Indian society, particularly as it bears on the illustration of that of later times.The ancient Vedas, which consist of Odes and Hymns addressed to the divinities which they recognized, contain but few allusions which can be made to bear on the illustration of the external history of the A'ryas, who so long proved the ruling tribe in India, and whose assumed superiority among the various peoples domiciled in this great country is still to be observed to the present day. Throughout the Lecture he has given his authorities, adding some illustrative notes which may not be without their value to certain classes of readers. About the Author :-John Wilson (1741—1793) was an England mathematician. Wilson's theorem is named after him. He attended school in Staveley, Cumbria before going up to Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1757, where he was.......