Hindu America by Chaman Lal 1940 Reprint. 358 Pages

Mr. Chaman Lal has bought together in their book many interesting parallels between the culture of the American Indians and that of the ancient Hindus. The analogies in the forms of worship, social customs and usages are quite impressive. It is difficult to be certain about direct influence on borrowing by one culture to another. After all, there is not one type of civilization among the American Indians and the ancient Hindu civilization is a vast and complex one with different articulations in it and to detect parallelisms between some aspects of the former and certain sides of the latter is not difficult.

If may be suggested that the similarities in tenets and practices are due to the fundamental oneness of the human mind. But Mr. Chaman Lal has brought together evidence, with great learning and discrimination which is in favor of an early colonization of America by the Hindus and has supported his thesis by quotations from competent authorities.

I have no doubt that his book is worth reading and his thesis deserves consideration.
Darjeeling 22nd May 1940