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Title: A Literary History of India
Publisher: Neilson Pr
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1444639935
ISBN 13: 9781444639933
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Like New

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Originally published in 1898. PREFACE: In essaying to set forth a connected history of India from such evidences as I have selected from its literature, I have been obliged to evade, and not emphasise, difficulties everywhere patent to the scholar or specialist. In most cases, however, I have accepted the conclusions of those who are recognised authorities. In those cases where scholors still disagree I have indicated in footnotes the evidences on which I had to form conclusions of my own. On many points, especially those relating to the significance of the early, sacrifical systems, to the origin and purport of the Epics, and to the Graeco-Roman influence on the form of the Indian Drama, it was manifestly impossible, in a work such as this, to enter on any prolonged discussion. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, mod

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A renowned authority on India, where he worked as an administrator in the Madras Civil Service until ill-health forced him to return to England, R. W. Frazer (1854-1921) had an intimate knowledge of Sanskrit literature, spoke the Dravidian languages Tamil and Telugu, and was the author of a number of books on the subject of Indian literature.

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