Show INDIA AND ITS PEOPLES by copt capt L R cloud claud robinson 8 A BRIEF SURVEY OF INDIAN HISTORY TP F WIM WE try to form a mental picture of 0 indian history we see a u tun con fused 1 procession roces slon of kingdo rux taking shape and dissolving again afern und and there grent great figures stand out the founders of mighty dynasties di or the makers of kingdoms at one moment we are dazzled by the ol of some unusually brilliant helgn in the next we are left contemplating tile ruins of all this greatness subsiding ain amidst anarchy and confusion in the fourth century B 0 chan dru gupta holds our attention us its tie he wrests an empire from the generals als of alexander A century later we find asuka asoka is equally coni for foi his patronage of which re suited tn in its becoming one of the greatest religions in the world in the second fourth and seventh ceni urles we catch pt issing glimpses of areat sovereigns tn in and ad and in the cen tury fifty we the rise of tile the cel celebrated warrior wan lor clans chins of tile Raj puts during the dominion buddhism was attacked and vanquished by bv dulom hardly have we realized the mean ing and greatness of the than we see new neu forces pour I 1 ln n through gli the defiles of 0 tile northwest i frontier conquering slaying aind pro and assailing with a mill in inspired by b a creed which only one god with this con quest of india we assoil ate tile fierce figure of Alahn iud of gasoi in the eleventh century endur en tur and mil the resplendent iut epoch of the mogul dynasty towards the close ot of the mogul period we see bee tile close ot of the Al arathas of the demon and once inte move more we witness that familiar ellit in indian history lils toiv of if a great rum crum blang and finally disappearing from the land igind while there Is ii romance romi ince in plenty to tolor color these fleeting ines of the alie inland our based ln td on hari timid filet will ft show us as that it Is war vur that casts its shi sinister lster shad sharina w wei over th whole the result of 0 alerce and it a clu caul 1 of rival deeds creeds nor itoe doe the early period of european a rt ralond Lond I 1 ancy in the cast differ r lo lit this from fim the erds eras which preceded ireni lt d it spain portugal france Ilo llund and great britain fought tier vely tor for do minion until at length a single power r i emerged em eroid trIumph ruit |