IN his talk this evening Mr. Turnbull plunges into Indian history, which he explains as being a network of by-paths round a main road which can be divided into three definite stages: Hindu, Mohammedan, and European. In this talk lie covers the Hindu and Mohammedan stages. The first includes the Aryan invasions and the growth of Hindu civilization : the * golden age ' of Asoka, the Emperor-Saint, followed by the Mohammedan invasions, the exploits of tho Rajputs, the splendour of the great Mogul Empire with its capital at Delhi, and the reasons why those splendours at last faded into decay.