Indian Epigraphy c2.1

c2.1

It was during my student days about thirty five years ago that I felt the want of suitable books for the study of inscriptions in the post-graduate classes of Indian Universities. While I was preparing my *Select Inscriptions bearing on Indian History and Civilisation* on behalf of the University of Calcutta nearly twenty-five years back, it was also my aspiration to write an introductory volume dealing with Indian epigraphy and palaeography. But the subjects appeared to me so vast and complicated that I soon became doubtful about my competence to undertake it.