Lyall, A: Asiatic Studies -

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Résumé :
Excerpt from Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social

Asiatic country in the long territorial struggle of modern times between Europe and Asia, their command of the sea enabled them to turn the ?ank of India's land defences, and by pushing up from the coast to establish themselves in the heart of Asia, at a time when the Cross and the Crescent were still contending fiercely on the Danube and the Caspian. Having thus occupied large provinces of Asia for more than a century, the English have been obliged, in building up their administration and consolidating their successive conquests, to look closely into the social and economical conditions of India, to consider the feel ings of the people and to realize their political and religious idiosyncrasies; with the general result that by opening out India they have let a ?ood of clear daylight in upon Asia at large. The present small volume may possibly add something to the English store of information derived from Eastern experiences it may aid toward the exact appreciation of Indian life and thought, and to a knowledge, through India.

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