The History and Culture of the Indian People
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History and Culture of the Indian People is a series of eleven volumes on the history of India, from prehistoric times to the establishment of the modern state in 1947. Historian R.C. Majumdar was the general editor of the series, as well as a major contributor.
The first volume is about the Vedic period. It has 27 chapters by 11 contributors. Three chapters and part of a fourth were written by R.C. Majmdar. Other contributors to the first volume are V.M. Apte, A.D. Puslker and B.K. Gosh. The volume discusses the archaeolgy, geology, flora, fauna and other aspects of this period. It includes a chapter on the palaeolithic, neolithic and copper ages by H.D. Sankali.
Historian John Keay describes the work as :
...a standard work of many volumes commissioned in the 1950s to celebrate India's liberation from foreign rule and foreign scholarship."[1]
Upon the appearance of the first volume in the series, in a review in the Isis journal M.F. Ashley Montagu described it as:
"...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.[2]
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[edit] References
- Keay, John (2000). India: A History. Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-3797-0.
[edit] Further reading
- 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.
