[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.vaidya-1921) › v3.c41.2 # History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v3.c41.2 History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v3.c41.2 - **Language:** English ### [v3.c41.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.vaidya-1921.v3.c41.2) As stated in the beginning of this volume, we have a very valuable guide for ascertaining the social condition of Hindu India at the outset of this sub-period, in Al-Beruni who wrote his book on India in 1030 A. D. Al-Beruni lived among the Hindus at Multan and elsewhere in the Panjab and was an accurate observer. But unfortunately he sometimes mixes what he read in Hindu religious books which he studied in the original, with what he saw and his observations, therefore, are not always as reliable as those of previous Arab writers quoted in our second volume. However, we begin the description of the social condition of India in this sub-period, with quoting what Al-Beruni says on subject of caste in his book on India. Fortunately he was acquainted with Persian and Greek history and gives us facts from the west for comparison with Indian condition. - [Previous: v3.c41.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.vaidya-1921.v3.c41.1) - [Next: v3.c41.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.vaidya-1921.v3.c41.3) - [Up: v3.c41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.vaidya-1921.v3.c41) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.vaidya-1921.v3.c41.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.vaidya-1921.v3.c41.2) · Pramāṇa