Ancient Hindu Refugees Oxford University Press Raghunatha Siromani

Raghunatha Siromani

and no apology is perhaps needed' to name any particular volume after its dominant theme

Mahabhjrata refers to Puranas both in the singular (at Adiparvan 5

Conflicting views are often discussed by commentators and variants of the text are recorded

Padmanabha being the eleventh and Dharani (Earth) the twelfth

Ancient Hindu Refugees Oxford University Press Raghunatha SiromaniDocumentation of Baghdad Culture spans a period from 1800 to the present, one and three quarter centuries of changing conditions described by several dozen Western observers, none of them trained anthropologists. The Badagas of modern times are also observers, sometimes very astute ones, of their own changing culture; but they too know little about the way of life pursued by their ancestors before 1800. The present work tried to answer certain