How Long to Read Hindu Gods and Heroes: Studies in the History of the Religion of India

How Long Does it Take to Read Hindu Gods and Heroes: Studies in the History of the Religion of India?

It takes the average reader 2 hours to read Hindu Gods and Heroes: Studies in the History of the Religion of India by Lionel D. Barnett

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Let us imagine we are in a village of an Aryan tribe in the Eastern Panjab something more than thirty centuries ago. It is made up of a few large huts, round which cluster smaller ones, all of them rudely built, mostly of bamboo; in the other larger ones dwell the heads of families, while the smaller ones shelter their kinsfolk and followers, for this is a patriarchal world, and the housefather gives the law to his household. The people are mostly a comely folk, tall and clean-limbed, and rather fair of skin, with well-cut features and straight noses; but among them are not a few squat and ugly men and women, flat-nosed and nearly black in colour, who were once the free dwellers in this land, and now have become slaves or serfs to their Aryan conquerors. Around the village are fields where bullocks are dragging rough ploughs; and beyond these are woods and moors in which lurk wild men, and beyond these are the lands of other Aryan tribes. Life in the village is simple and rude, but not uneventful, for the village is part of a tribe, and tribes are constantly fighting with one another, as well as with the dark-skinned men who often try to drive back the Aryans, sometimes in small forays and sometimes in massed hordes. But the world in which the village is interested is a small one, and hardly extends beyond the bounds of the land where its tribe dwells. It knows something of the land of the Five Rivers, in one corner of which it lives, and something even of the lands to the north of it, and to the west as far as the mountains and deserts, where live men of its own kind and tongue; but beyond these limits it has no knowledge. Only a few bold spirits have travelled eastward across the high slope that divides the land of the Five Rivers from the strange and mysterious countries around the great rivers Gaṅgā and Yamunā, the unknown land of deep forests and swarming dark-skinned men.

How long is Hindu Gods and Heroes: Studies in the History of the Religion of India?

Hindu Gods and Heroes: Studies in the History of the Religion of India by Lionel D. Barnett is 120 pages long, and a total of 30,000 words.

This makes it 40% the length of the average book. It also has 37% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Hindu Gods and Heroes: Studies in the History of the Religion of India Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 43 minutes to read Hindu Gods and Heroes: Studies in the History of the Religion of India aloud.

What Reading Level is Hindu Gods and Heroes: Studies in the History of the Religion of India?

Hindu Gods and Heroes: Studies in the History of the Religion of India is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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