The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c4.5

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At various stages of my work I have received occasional suggestions and help from the late Sir T. W. Arnold, Sir E. Denison Ross, Sir Wolseley Haig, Prof. H. H. Dodwell, Mr. H. A. R. Gibb, Dr. Margaret Smith (all of the School of Oriental Studies, London), Prof. F. W. Thomas (Oxford University), Mr. C. A. Storey (Librarian, India Office), Mr. John Allan (British Museum), Mr. J. Van Manen (Asiatic Society of Bengal), Prof. R. C. Majumdar (Dacca University), Dr. M. W. Mirza (Lucknow University), Dr. H. C. Raychaudhuri and Prof. M. Z. Siddiqi (of the University of Calcutta). I take this opportunity to express my gratefulness for their kind assistance. To Mr. J. C. Chakravorti, the Offg. Registrar and Mr. A. C. Ghatak I am thankful for the help rendered to me in the printing and publication of this volume. Acknowledgment is also due to Mr. Benoy Krishna Ray for assistance in preparing the Index. To Messrs. H. C. Chakladar and J. N. Bannerji I am indebted for the permission to use an excellent snapshot of the porch of the temple of Mukteśvara at Bhuvaneswar, which is reproduced on the cover. To Messrs. Aga Kazim Shirazi and S. N. Mitra I am indebted for occasional help in proof reading. I must also express my appreciation of the courtesy and consideration shown to me by the officers in charge of the various European libraries, specially those attached to the School of Oriental Studies (London), the British Museum and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. But above all, I am indebted to Dr. L. D. Barnett, who with unfailing kindness and great patience has gone through every chapter of the first two volumes of the present work and suggested corrections and alterations most of which I have incorporated in the body of my thesis. It was also due to his intercession that the High Commissioner of India made a grant of £30 towards the expenses of the publication of this work. Dr. Barnett has further increased my debt of gratitude to him by adding a kind Foreword to this work.