Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c5: Preface to the Third Edition
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c5
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Preface to the Third Edition
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The *Political History of Ancient India* now arrives at a third edition. An endeavour has been made to make it more accurate and up-to-date. Questions connected with certain dynasties, particularly of the Scythian period, have been treated afresh and several paragraphs have been revised in the light of the new information that may be gathered from literature as well as inscriptions discovered at Shabdaur, Maira, Khalatse, Nāgārjunīkoṇḍa, Guṇāighara and other places. Footnotes and appendices have been added to explain the author’s viewpoint with regard to certain controversial matters. A new feature of the revised edition is the insertion in certain chapters, particularly of Part II, of introductory verses from literature to bring out some salient features of those chapters and incidentally, to show that poets and sages of Ancient India were not altogether unmindful of the political vicissitudes through which their country passed. The author craves the indulgence of the reader for certain misprints that have crept into the text. The labour of revising the Indexes has been performed by Srijuts D. C. Raychaudhuri, G. C. Raychaudhuri and Anilkumar Raychaudhuri.
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA: *December 13, 1931.*