History of India, in Nine Volumes: Vol. I - From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century B.C. - Hardcoverby Romesh C. Dutt (Author), Williams A. V. Jackson (Editor) The waves of Hindu conquests rolled onwards, and the aborigines submitted themselves to a higher civilization and a nobler creed. Rivers were crossed, forests were cleared, lands were reclaimed, wide wastes were people, and new countries hitherto aboriginal witnessed the rise of Hindu power and of Hindu religion. Where a few scanty settlers had penetrated at first, powerful colonies grew;