The early part of the Vedic period or that preceding it, was an age of economic self-sufficiency and consequently there was little scope for an exchange of commodities. All the rural centres were self-supporting. Every house-holder produced the necessaries of life—his farm producing his food-grains and other necessaries, the industry of the women of his household supplied him with his [...]
In this article we will discuss about the history of Aryans. Probably last in the series of migrations in antiquity, came the race, whom tradition regards as the forefathers of the high-caste Hindus of the present day. We would designate this race by the name Aryan, as it was the term they used in describing themselves, as opposed to the [...]
Of the arts and crafts of the Vedic period, some seem to have arisen undoubtedly before the Aryans came and settled down in the Punjab. Many nations of antiquity had made considerable advance in them, as would appear from the similarity existing between some words of the Sanskrit language and corresponding words of various Indo-European languages, denoting the same craft, [...]