The History and Culture of the Indian People

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The History and Culture of the Indian People is a book by historian R.C. Majumdar in 10 volumes.

The first volume is about the Vedic Age. It has 27 chapters by 11 contributors. Three chapters and part of a fourth were written by R.C. Majumdar. Other contributors to the first volume are V.M. Apte, A.D. Pusalker and B.K. Ghosh. The volume discusses the archaeology, geology, flora, fauna and other aspects of this period. It includes a chapter on the palaeolithic, neolithic and copper ages by H.D. Sankalia.

M.F. Ashley Montagu wrote in a review in the Isis journal that the book is in a very real sense "the first volume of the first genuine history of India", and that it "is likely to remain for many generations the most important of all histories of India, and, indeed, renders all others obsolete if not superfluous."

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  • R.C. Majumdar (general editor) and A.D. Pusalker (assistant editor): The History and Culture of the Indian People. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1951.
  • M.F. Ashley Montagu, Review in: Isis, Vol. 43, No.1 (Apr., 1952), pp. 75-76.
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