Excerpt from The String of Pearls, Vol. 2 India is one of those countries, upon which time seems scarcely able to make any difference in customs, or*religion, under whatever form of government it may happen to be placed. Its inhabitants receive no improvement, and its arts, handed down from father to son, scarcely admit of deterioration. More changes have taken place in its dynasties, more divisions have occurred in its states, than perhaps have been experienced by any other country of the civil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.