[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955) › c2 # A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c2: Preface to the Second Edition A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c2 - **Language:** English ### Preface to the Second Edition ### [c2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c2.1) THIS edition has been carefully revised in the light of suggestions made by many reviewers who have generally given a warm reception to it in the learned periodicals. The Chapter (III) on the Earliest Peoples and Cultures has been rewritten in part in the light of recent advances in the knowledge of the prehistory of South India due particularly to the excavations of the Archaeological Department of India. Rather more attention has been given to the history and culture of Kerala than in the first edition. Some of the illustrations which figured in it have been dropped and a few new ones added. My thanks are due to Dr M. Seshadri of Mysore University and Messrs K. R. Srinivasan and N. R. Banerjee of the Indian Archaeological Department for much valuable help in the revision of the chapter on prehistory. Professor K. K. Pillai of the Madras University and Mr G. Harihara Sastri gave much help in the revision of the sections on Kerala history and culture. Prof. Mariappa Bhat helped in the revision of the section on Kannada literature. ### [c2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c2.2) Diacritical marks and transliteration always present problems in books of this kind, and compromises were followed in both instances in the first edition with a view to minimize the marks which embarrass the general reader for whom the book is particularly meant and in order to retain familiar forms of the names of persons, rivers, and places even at the sacrifice of a consistent adherence to strict rules of transliteration. The reader will thus find both \*c\* and \*ch\* used for च, and \*ṣ\* and \*sh\* for ष in different contexts. ### [c2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c2.3) Dr T. V. Mahalingam made a number of valuable suggestions as the book was being printed and Mr S. Krishnamurti prepared the Index; I am grateful to them for their help. ### [c2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c2.4) K. A. N. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c2) · Pramāṇa