The natural frontiers of India are mountains and sea, and this fact has had a preponderating influence upon her annals. From the mouth of the Indus on the west to the delta of the Ganges on the east the waters of the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean wash the shores of the great triangular peninsula of central and southern India. A vast irregular semicircle of mountains, with a few breaks in the line, extends from a point westward of the Indus to the shores of Arakan the country on the eastern bend of the Bay of Bengal.
Sweeping round to the east are the Hindu Kush and the Karakoram mountains with their tremendous summits, some attaining an altitude of 28,000 feet. Thence the mighty double barrier of the Himalayas, including amongst its peaks Mount Everest, the loftiest elevation on the surface of the globe, stretches in a slightly concave south-eastern curve to the northern frontier of Assam. At the base of the central Himalayas runs a belt of malarial tiger-haunted jungle called The Tarai or Duars, and beneath the forest overgrowth lie the buried remains of many ancient cities famous in Buddhist history. India is thus magnificently fortified by nature.
Furthermore, no people of the world can afford to neglect India’s ancient heritage. In her literature, philosophy, art, and regulated life there is much to learn that is distinctly healthy; in addition the treasures of knowledge, wisdom, and beauty which they contain are too precious to be lost. Every citizen of India needs to use them, if he is to be a cultured modern Indian. This is as true of the Christian, the Muslim, the Zoroastrian as of the Hindu and the Indian But, while the heritage of India has been largely explored by scholars, and the results of their toil are laid out for us in their books, they cannot be said to be really available for the ordinary man. The volumes are in most cases are boring, and are often technical and difficult. Hence this site provides the treasures of India's past.
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