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Cosmo Publications is pleased to announce the publication of this classic series of indian history. Tehse books are authentic documents from the past that are as valid and as useful today as when they were written, or even more so. These are books that have come to acquire a stature which was not apparent when they were published. Edited by the leading indologist of his time - W.W. Hunter-the titles in this series reflect some of the best biographies ever attempted. Mr. Hunter indeed made sure that the task of writing the individual title was entrusted to the most suitable person as is amply relfected by the choice of the authors for the purpose. That the titles are indeed classics is clearly demonstrated by some of the reviews we have included here - ` the story of his life Sir w. W. Hunter tells in well-chosen language- clear, succint and mainly .Sir w. w. hunter is sympathy with his subject, and does full justice to mayo`s strong, genione nature. Without exaggeration and in a direct, uneffected style, as befits his themes, be brings the man and his work vivdly before us`-The Glasgow herald. `This is another of the "Rulers of India" series, and it will be bard to beat… Sir William Hunter`s perception and expression are here at their very best`-The pall Mall gazette. " The latest addition to the "Rulers of India" series yields to none of its predecessors in attractiveness, vigour, and artistic portraiture… The final chapter must either be copied verbally and literally-which the space at our disposal will not permit-lr be left to the sorrowful persual of the reader. The man is not to be envied who can read it with dry eyes`.-Allen`s Indian mail. `This volume, will, no doubt, be welcomed, even by experts in Indian history, in the light of a new, clear and terse rendering of an old, but not worn-out theme. It is a worthy and valuable addition to Sir W. W. hunter`s promising series.`-Athenaeum. `Sir owen burne has written this book carefully, brightly, and with excellent judgement, and we in india cannot read such a book without feeling that he has powerfully aided the accomplshed editor`.-Bombay Gazette. "Sir owen burne`s book on `cyde and strathnairn`s iw worthy to rank with the best in the admirable series to which it belongs.`-Manchester Examiner. " Sir H.S. Cunningham has succeeded in writing the history of a critical period in so fair and dispassionate a manner as to make it almost a matter of astonishment that the motives which he has so clealy grasped should ever have been misinterpreted, and the results which he indicates so grossly misjudged. Nor is the excellence of his work less conspicious from the literary than from the political and historical point of view`.-Glasgow herald. `An excellent example of compression about precison. Many volumes might be written about the long war in Mysore, and we cannot but admire the skill with which Mr. Bowring has condensed the history of the struggle…. Is a book as terse and concise as a book can be,.-North British Daily Mail. "Mr. Bowring;s Book is one of the freshest and best of a series most valuable to all interested in the concens of the British Empire in the East.`English Mail. `no one is better suited than vincent Smith to write on Asoka, and he has performed his task with distinct success. The whole narrative is like, everything vincent smith writes, clear and full of vigour,-yorkshire post. Set of 12 volumes, total PP 22 + 4000. Size 22 14 cm. Extensive bibliographicies, cross references, cloth bound, jacket, boxed. ISBN 81-7755-172-0.
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