Chronology of Gujarat

SR No.: 006799
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: M R Majumdar
Publisher: Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Publication Year: 1960
Total Pages: 494
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 10 MB

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PREFACE
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My erudite colleague Dr. H. G. Shastri's uniform interest and hearty co-operation in the work, cannot go unnoticed.
It gives me pleasure to put on record the expert co-operation of the PhotographerArtist Shri Dinabandhu '( Mohanlal Bhav-ar) of Kathlal, who accompained me in most of the Research-tours, and took sharp photographs, some of which are reproduced in this volume.
I thank Shri Batukkumar (Chandramauli) Majmudar, a Post-graduate student, and Kumari Shraddhadovi Majmudar, my children, for materially helping me in the preparation of the Index, which includes names of Books and Articles also, given in Italics.
This project was, from the beginning, carried out under the auspices of the Oriental Institute. So I take this opportunity to thank the ex-Director Professor G. H. Bhatt, and the present Director Professor B. J. Sandesara, and other members of the Staff, who have helped me in various ways.
My special acknowledgment of hearty cooperation is due to Dr. P.M. Joshi, Director of Archives and Ancient Monuments, Bombay State, Bornbay, to Dr. Moti Chandra, Director, Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay, and President, Museums Association of India, to Shri V. L. Devkar, Director, Baroda Museum and Art Gallery, and Head, Museology Department 'M. S. University, to Shri K. V. Saundara Rajan, Superintendent of Archaeology, Western Circle, Baroda, and to the late Shri P. P. Pandya, Government Archaeologist, Rajkot, of the former Bombay State.
Thanks are due to the Director, Bhāratiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, to the Director, B.J. Research Institute, Gujarat Vidyāsabhā, Ahmedabad, to Shri P.G. Shah, Secretary, Gujarat Research Society, Khar, Bombay, and to the Hon. Curator, Shri Rājendra Surakāthā of Winchester Museum, Surat, for warm cooperation.
Thanks are due to many Institutions, Collaborators and Friends, besides, who have extended to me the loans of photographs, negatives, blocks etc., and have thus enabled me to present the work in this extant form. Their individual help and cooperation is explicitly acknowledged at the proper places.
To the Press-Management of the M. S. University Press, my sincere thanks are due for giving me every facility in printing work, and for offering their expert co-operation in the production of this work, as a whole.
Chronology of Gujarat
Section, Oriental Institute,
Baroda 30th June, 1960
GENERAL EDITOR
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