Preface

We in India are quite in the dark as to the extent
id greatness of that Greater India} which had been
jtablished outside India by the brave and adventu-
ms sons of India in the days of yore, I hare atternp-
:d to tell that story in my former books : (I) Indian
backers of Buddhist Universities^ which gives an
ccount of the teachers from India to the land of
aow, (II) Indian Teacher sin China, giving an account
f the band of pandits going over to China and
preading the culture and civilisation cf India with
he gospel of Lord Buddha for about a thousand
ears, (III) Indian colony of chamfia shows how an
ndependent kingdom was established in Further India
>y Indian colonists,

I continue that story of Greater India in my pre-
ient book, which attempts to show how an Indian
:olony had been established in Siam, and how even at
.he present day, the culture and civilisation of India
survives in the kingdom of Siam.

My thanks are due to Moti Lai Bauarsi Das for
publishing this monograph.

ist March 1927
Visva-Bharati j> Phanindra Nath Bose
Santiniketan