WE will lay aside, for the present, our inquiries into the general subject of the primitive civilizations of the far East, and the people who have sprung from the Brahminic stock in the old world, in order to publish the result of such researches as we have been able to make, during our long residence in India, into the subject of occult science, and the practices of those who have been initiated into the sect of the Pitris, which is Sanscrit for spirits or ancestral shades. This is neither a doctrinal book nor a work of criticism. We are not called upon to decide, either for or against, the...

The present book is based upon the English Translation of Loius Jacolliot's original masterpiece in French titled as "La Bible Dans L'Inde." The book was published in 1876 in Paris by Librairie Internaionale, A Lacroix Et Cie Editeurs. Later its English translation was also published by G.W. Dillingham Publishers New York titled as "Bible in India: Hindu Origin of Hebrews and Christian Revelations." The book is divided in the four parts. Part first tries to project India as the cradle of World Civilisation. In this part, the author observes that India's contribution to the west was...