ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that the strength and the huligenous extent of the indigenous civilisation which they thus ignorantly civilisation of India and unsuccessfully strove to overthrow. The obscure non-Aryan races had there developed a political organization and a copious literature, written in vernaculars of their own,—vernaculars which, while richly endowed for literary uses, remained non-Aryan in all essentials of structure and type. The Aryan vernaculars of modern India are the descendants not of Sanskrit, but of the spoken languages Was San- of the Aryan immigrants into the north. The Aryan vernaculars of modern India may be distributed according to their geographical areas into seven main lanculars guages. The barest summary of the written and unwritten works in the modern Indian vernaculars is altogether beyond the scope of the present wrork. Nearly 1300 works per annum are published in the vernacular languages of Lower Bengal alone.
