![]() ![]() His is an entrancing tale of the peaceful invasion of a great sub-continent by the ancestors of our Indian fellow-subjects TOWARDS ANGKOR only to the student but also, I think, to the general reading public by a skilful blend of scholarship and the art of the narrator. Moreover, he has written his account in a manner which will appeal not But the author of the present volume has made a first contribution of undoubted importance. of the culture of Greater India is still in its The study infancy, and a rich field awaits the patient investigator. On this occasion Dr Wales was able to penetrate regions neverīefore visited by a European archaeologist, and discovered the earlier vestiges of the original Hindu art which found itsĪngkor. Wrentmore, a member of the India Society. The second, in the following year,īy the generosity of Mrs C. Hundred years ago, Indian cultural influence spread to the shores of the Pacific. The first, during the season 1934-35, with the distinguished patronage of His Highness the Maharaja Gackwar of Baroda, was undertaken for the purpose of investigating the overland route across the Malay Peninsula by which, some fifteen Dr Wales knows intimately Siarn, French Indo-China, and Indonesia, and belongs to that younger school of explorers who have learned toĬombine history and geography serving at the Court of Siam forĪnd thereby receiving a thorough grounding in Hindu and Buddhist institutions, he undertook two archaeological expeditions several years, ![]() Of the Greater-India Research Committee I have great pleasure in writing a foreword to the present work of our Field Director. Printed by Western Printing Services, Ltd., Itn&tol 182 High Holborn, London, W.C.i Copyright. ![]()
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