Motilal Banarsidass Pvt. Ltd.. Paperback. New. Motilal Banarsidass Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 8120800184 9788120800182 [IN]

Motilal Banarsidass . Paperback. New. The object of this volume is to provide within a moderate compass a compendious account of the history, institutions, and culture of ancient India from the dim ages of antiquity to the establishment of Moslem rule. It has not been planned to meet the needs of any particular class of readers. Its primary purpose is to serve alike students, scholars, and all others, interested in the study of ancient Indian history, as a book of ready use and reference. The pages which follow every attempt has been made to avoid presenting a mass of the dry bones of historical fact or over-burdening the account with intricate discussions on knotty problems of history, on the one hand, and giving a mere general and readable survey of India's long and fascinating past, on the other. I have endeavoured to tap and utilise properly the available sources of information, literary, epigraphic, and numismatic, and also to embody and set borth in a consistent manner the results of up-to-date researches on different topics and epochs. All the materials have been patiently sifted and critically examined with the sole desire to arrive at historical truth and scientific accuracy; and the unfortunate tendency, manifest in some modern publications, to extol or decry without warrant any of the manifold as pects of India's panoramic story, has been scrupulously eschewedThis book gives an authoritative, up-to-date, and compendious account of the history, ...

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Motilal Banarsidass, Date: 1999. Paperback. New. 608 pages. 8.30x5.50x1.10 inches. 1999. Motilal Banarsidass ISBN 8120800184 9788120800182 [GB]

Motilal Banarsidass 1999 Softcover New 608 pages. 8.30x5.50x1.10 inches.