“The name of India is derived from the river Indus, and it’s extended to the south of Tartary, between that river and China. It is denominated Hindoostan by the Persians; but the Hindoos call it Bharata. It is bounded on the north by Usbeck Tartary and Tibet; on the east by Asam, Aracan, and the Bay of Bengal; on the south by the Indian Ocean; and by the same ocean and Persia on the West.” (p. 640)

Guthrie, William. 1827. A Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar; Exhibiting the Present State of the World. London: Mills, Jowett, and Mills.

“The heart of India is held by Hinduism. For more than two thousand years it has known no other rule. Creeds, customs, ideals and objects of allegiance have changed, but only within the broad limits allowed by the nature of Hinduism. The distinguishing concepts of Hinduism have been constantly dominant.” (p. 11)

Waskom, Pickett, J. 1938. Christ’s Way to India’s Heart; Present Day Mass Movements to Christianity. London: The United society for Christian literature.

“The strength of Hinduism is in its elasticity and its genius for absorption. It has steadily defended its empire by welcoming and adopting potential rivals. While its own most characteristic thinking has produced a highly metaphysical pantheism, it has extended hospitality to polytheism, monotheism, and atheism.” (p. 13)

Waskom, Pickett, J. 1938. Christ’s Way to India’s Heart; Present Day Mass Movements to Christianity. London: The United society for Christian literature.

“The Vedānta tradition has a great significance in the intellectual history of India, and it is the representative philosophy which forms the principal current of thought in that country. The philosophy of Vedānta has been handed down through the ages in the blood of the Indian people; it is inseparable from the soil of this great Asian subcontinent.” (p. 1)

Nakamura, Hajime. 1983. A History of Early Vedanta Philosophy (Part 1). Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.