India and the Frontier States of Afghanistan, Nipal and Burma #263170

IT is a common complaint that while the annals of In dia are of paramount importance to the people of England, there is no history which they seem less inclined to study. Greece and Rome, Egypt and Palestine, Assyria and Baby lon — countries which have long ceased to play a part in the drama of humanity — are the subjects of text-books in our schools and universities; while India, which is literally a modern reflex of the ancient world, and has moreover be come a part and parcel of the British empire, is to this day a sealed book to the masses. The essays of Lord Macaulay on Robert Olive and Warren Hastings are perhaps known to every English household; but they refer to mere episodes in the history, and are wanting in that familiarity with na tive character and forms of thought which is essential to a right appreciation of the great collision between Europe and Asia that has been going on in India for the last two centuries.