xii, 254, [4]pp, with folding colour plate frontispiece, one folding map and several monochrome plate illustrations. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. 8vo. Cloth a little tired and marked, gently rounded at corners and ends of a lightly sunned spine. Text block edges toned and spotted. Endpapers heavily tanned, with a previous owner's name neatly inked on the front paste down, else internally clean and neat. Binding a tad brittle.
A study of the Vedic period in India's history - roughly 1500 to 500 BC - when Indo Aryan tribes migrated to subcontinent and laid the foundations for Hinduism, composing Vedic literature and establishing early social structures and rituals.
