Political History Of Ancient India

SR No.: 032292
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hemchandra Raychaudhari
Publisher: University of Calcutta
Publication Year: 1950
Total Pages: 714
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

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682 AN ADVANCED HISTORY OF INDIA
IV. An Advanced History of India Opinion on the book and particularly on the chapters contributed by the author of the ---
Political History of Ancient India
PROFESSOR LOUIS RENOU, PARIS. C'est un ouvrage tout-à-fait remarquable, destiné a mon avis à remplacer pour les étudiants avancés le Vincent Smith (et autres) un peu vieillis. Vatre exposé est très clair, sobre, prudent, éloigné de toute hypothèse inutile.
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Pp. 103-104. L. D. Barnett. An Advanced History of India. By R. C. Majumdar, H. C. Raychaudhuri, Kalikinkar Datta. Second edition. pp. ix, i, 1081 ; 10 maps. London: Macmillan and Co., 1948.
One of the most hopeful features in the mental life of modern India is its thirst for history. Schools, Colleges and Universities pursue this study with vigour. The favours of Clio are not easy to win: she loves to walk especially in the domain of India's past, though darkling ways,........
........... But her Indian suitors have urged their quest with courage and often with notable skill, and their labours have borne fruit in a large number of works, many of high merit. In this book three distinguished Indian scholars have collaborated in order to produce for advanced
students an outline of their country's history from - the earliest ages down to our time, in which are
summarized the main results of modern studies. In this they have been on the whole very successful. Their attitude is generally fair and reasonable, their narrative lucid and straightforward. Naturally specialists, particularly in the realm of ancient Indian annals, on which opinions are very often divergent, will find food for criticism in some of the views presented ; but our authors may justly claim a right to their opinions.
It must, however, be acknowledged that in at least one respect their work shows some lack of proportion. They are Bengalis whose studies have been mainly concerned with the history of Northern India ; and this has led them to allot a very small space to the annals of the great kingdoms of the South from the decline of the Sātavāhanas to
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