History of India : From the Earliest Period to the Present Time

"India has had a chequered journey from the glorious ancient past to present day. The land of great ancient civilization, where many great religions e.g. Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism evolved and flourished, India was renowned the world over for its fabulous wealth, culture, art and craft, polity, spiritualism etc. since yore days.

History is the unending dialogue between present and the past. Therefore any amount of creation of literature on history is significant as well as an intensive revision of what had been written already. This cycle of writing and rewriting keeps the history alive. In this connection reissuing the old great works is necessary.

The monumental work by a great western historian on Indian history, culminating ancient past to modern times in its fold, still possesses wide popularity. Definitely the present reissue of the treatise will benefit all the inquisitive readers." (jacket)