Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c3.1

c3.1

After finishing his book on "Vaiṣṇavism, Śaivism and minor religious systems" in the Encyclopædia of Indo-Aryan Research, my revered father very much wanted to bring out a revised edition of his "Early History of the Dekkan" But multifarious engagements and continued ill-health prevented him from carrying it out He asked me in his last wishes to bring out a third edition with notes and indicated what important records had been published since the last edition I do not know how long I would have been unable to carry out this sacred task But Chuckervertty, Chatterjee & Co, who are to India what Trübner & Co are to Europe, of their own motion made proposals to me for the publication of the book, and the result is that this new edition with Notes is now before the scholarly public long before I expected it It is true that much new material has been available since the publication of the second edition But the main conclusions of the book from the period of the Early Chālukyas onwards have remained unshaken, and whatever changes are now required in reconstructing the history of the earlier period have been pointed out in the Notes