Excerpt from The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature, 1880, Vol. 1 Horace Wilson, who may be safel 3ited as the most calm and judi.. Cions oriental scholar of our times, asserts that there is nothing to shock probability in supposing that the Hindu dynasties, of whom we trace vestiges, were spread through twelve centuries anterior to the war of the Mahabharat.* This leads us back to dates about 2600 years We have, therefore, the astounding period of over four thousand years during which to glean facts relating to the Hindu race and their capa city for government, such as may form foundation for conclusions as to the future. The characteristics which have most impressed themselves on my mind after such study of Indian records as I have been able to bestow are, first, the very early appearance of solicitude for the interest and welfare of the people, as exhibited by Hindu rulers, such as has rarely or never been exhibited in the early histories of other nations secondly, the successful efforts of the Hindu race to re-establish them selves in power on the least appearance of decay in the successive for eign dynasties which have held rule among them. It is only with the latter phenomenon that I propose new to deal, and a rapid retrospect may be permitted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.