CHAPTER III
Professor Macdonell's History of Sanskrit Literature (Heinemann, 1905) contains a fascinating and readable account of the Hindu scriptures from the Vedic ages up to modern times.
Professor Hopkins' Religions of India and India Old and New deal with both the literature and the actual working of Indian religions. Mr W. Crooke's Native Races of Northern India is a popular account of the Aryan region, and Mr Thurston's Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Madras, Government Press. 1908. Though it is more elaborate and scientific in its treatment, is full of matters which are interesting not only to the specialist.
Meredith Townsend's Asia and Europe. London. Archibald Constable. 1905. Is still an interesting and suggestive study of the differences between East and West, and Sir A. C. Lyall's Asiatic Studies are the even more illuminating results of a long, intimate, and sympathetic familiarity with Indian religious thought.
The chapter on Religion in the forthcoming Census Report for 1911 will contain the latest fruits of research, statistical and other.
There is an enormous mass of literature dealing in detail with the religions and sects of India. A selected list of books will be found at p. 446 of the Imperial Gazetteer.