History of India

History of India

Ancient India and the Rig Veda
History of Ancient India is a history of thirty centuries of human culture and progress. It divides itself into several distinct periods, each of which, for length of years, will compare with the entire history of many a modern people. The earliest date claimed by modern scholars for its oldest literary monument, the Rig- Veda, is about 2000 Bc. Even at that remote age, Hindu civilization must have been hundreds or thousands of years old, and from that time the literary works of successive perio Read More...

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