As a Russian, Prof, Rostovizey was astounded by the resemblance India had to Russia. This resemblance, he says, should not be exaggerated, but neither can it be ignored," Like Rus sia, India Is @ gigantic country ~with 'a vast polyglot population, Like Russig it Is a country of many peo:
tongues and dialects, of various gions and religious conficts, of far-stretching fertile valleys and mighty rivers. Like Russia, it is a country of millions of peasants, thousands "of villages—and afew cities, the majority of which are veally nothing but large villages; country of buffaloes, creaking drays, country pathy, limitless spaces and plodding caravans of carts. Like Twasia it ig a country of dust, dist, fantastic sicknesses and uncleantiness in all "its forms; of extremes. in climate, economies, social life and religion, On the ohe hand suffering multitudes and constant begiapy—fon the other the palaces bright with the gold and silver of Rajas who themselves are bedecked with jewel squalid huts of peasants and. fabourers—and temples whose vaults see-tele treasures that none but the priests ever seo; a small intelligentsia with good intentions but m0 Foot in the soll—and millions of uneducated or semieducated, It is a country, like Russia, of unlimited possibilities hidden in the soul of a people unused to speaking the truth; a country Amazing for its deep religiousness ud its colourful religious ceremonies and processions, "its thousands of temples, tens of thousands of priests and millions of ardent worshippers—and, "like Russia a "country mysticism, asceticism, religious self-destruction andthe "killing. of the flesh." Later the _authc foes on a description of In religion and art, and his. Investig Hons in that field are read as one would read an interesting novel, the last eighteen years, Prof. M. Rostovtzev has published many. of his, books in England, which enjoy deserved prominence wherever there is asearch into the ancient past of peoples living along the shores of the Mediterranean.
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