A History of Agriculture in India v2.c50.42

v2.c50.42

The modern historians of Mediaeval India from 1903 onwards have been ‘mining’ Elliot and Dowson’s eight volumes for their histories. These include such standard works as S. Lane-Poole’s *Mediaeval India—Under Mohammedan Rule* (1903); Vincent Smith’s *Akbar, The Great Mogol* (1917); Pringle Kennedy’s *A History of the Great Moghuls* (1905 and 1911); the *Oxford History of India* (1919); the third and fourth volumes of the *Cambridge History of India*, viz. *Turks and Afghans* (1928) and *The Moghul Period* (1937). These histories, as well as those of Sir Jadu Nath Sarcar, are largely political and constitutional and are replete with details about court conspiracies, rebellions and battles. There are three exceptions, viz. Ishwari Prasad’s *History of Mediaeval India* (1925); Rawlinson’s *India, a Short Cultural History* (1937), and Michael Edwardes’s *A History of India* (1961). Apart from political developments Ishwari Prasad’s *History of Mediaeval India* also deals with art, architecture and literature. He made use of the works of Cunningham, Burgess and Marshall in the realm of archaeology. He also deals with the social, cultural and religious movements. Ishwari Prasad made a good attempt to present a history of India which deals with the life of man in its varied aspects.