Preface
A philosopher once said that his heart was in the past, his body in the present, and his soul in the future. It is the pride in our past and the hope in our future that has given me inspiration to write this book. For centuries the world has been made to accept the theory that Columbus discovered America. What Columbus really did was to 're-discover" America (for Europe), which was known to the Hindus, the Mongols, the Melane-sians and other Asiatic peoples for thousands of years. When Columbus re-discovered the 'New World' in 1492 and found himself among a strange-looking people, whose description resemb-led those of the people of India, he called them Indios. He named them Indians, because he thought he had reached India. They are still called Indians. These Indians were the earliest inhabitants of America, But where did they come from? What is their origin? Some say that they were the descendants of the Lost Tribes of Isreal, others hold that they came from Asia in pre-historic times. No less than two dozen theories bave been propounded in this connection. My thesis is that the ancient civilisation Inca) of the two whether Astecs. Maya or Americas owe their origin to the Hindu culture of India. The citations from the works of authorities of recognised merit and the record of my own personal observations of the life and customs of the Indians, which I have given in the present book, will prove that my thesis is correct. Emi-nent research workers like Hewitt, Mackenzie, Tod, Pocecke, Mrs. Nuttal and others have collect-ed plenty of data which go to show that the ancient American civilisations were influenced by Hindu culture and that the Cultural Pioneers from India established kingdoms in Asia, Europe and America. Hindus were great colonisers, traders and adventurers. It is interesting to study the mighty impulses that led them not only to establish contacts with the inhabitants of the remotest parts of the world but also to migrate and settle down there. Three full chapters are devoted to the treatment of this subject. Imprints of Hindu Culture. Three further Chapters have been devoted to the discussion of of similarities and parallelisms between and even dentities of religious and social customs in America (previous to the Spanish annexation) and ndia. The testimony is so over-whelming and convincing that no impartial student can doubt that the Hindus were the torch-bearers of culture in America, as in many other lands. The emigrant races of India took with them. wherever they went, their system of measurement of time, their local gods, their villages and provincial institutions, and their customs, including festivals, dances and ceremonials. By quoting the evidence of eye-witnesses of the time of Spanish conquest, I have shown that the vast continents of America bear the imprints of Hindu Culture. The belief of Americans in the four Hindu Yugas (epochs), the existence in America of the Hindu Gurukula scheme of education, the Hindu Panchayat System, the bazaar economy, the Soma Yagna (sacrifice), the worship of Indra, Ganesha and other Hindu gods, the practice of Hindu. religious dances and child-birth, marriage and death ceremonials including Suttee, the Devadasi system and the Hindu priestly spirited hierachy, and the similarity in legends and in the funda-mentals and ceremonials connected with the religious, social and political structure, prove beyond any doubt that the Hindus were the first to discover America.
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