Study of History - Maulana Kausar Niazi

STUDY or HISTORY
makes the claim with great confidence :
[A party among the biographers says that the tribes
which we have mentioned all
bedouins and shepherds.]
lived in camps. They were
Dr Satcliraider is a far more eminent scholar
and archaeologist than H.G. Wells. He wrote
his famous book Prehistoric Antiquities in 1890.
He belonged to the school of Grimm who was a
great historian and archaeologist. Dr Satchraider
says with the same confidence as Mas'udI : “On
the whole, Grimm is of the opinion that the Indo-
Europeans when they moved from Asia to Europe
were still shepherds." 4
We cannot say what is the position of Grimm
and Satchraider in the eyes of H.G. Wells. But
all historians recognise them as first-rate scholars
and they confirm the researches made by al -
Mas'udi, Ibn Sa r d and al-Tabari in the third
century of Hijrah.
We have so far quoted only one example,
otherwise the traditions which have been recog -
3 . Al-Mas'udl, I, 144.
4 . Prehistoric Antiquities, p. 13 ; Grimm, pp. 15, 18, 68, 69.
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