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The history of ancient india is a history of thirty centuries of human culture and progress. It divides itself into several distinct and long periods of epochs, each of which, for length of years, will compare with the entire history of many of modern people. Each of these periods has a distinct literature, and each has a civilisaton peculiar to it, which modified itself into the civilisaton of the next period under the operation of great political and social causes. In this book the author, r. c. dutt, gives us an account of these historical events by which they are marked. Ancient India has a connected history to tell, and its epcial feature is its intense attractivenss. We read in that ancient story how gifted aryan people, sepoerated by circumstances from the outside world, worked out their civilisation amidst natural and climatic conditions which were pecularlirly favourable. We note their intellectual discoveries age after age; we watch their religious progress and development through successive centuries; we makr their political career, as they gradually expand over india, and found new kingdoms and dynasties; we observe their struggles against priestly domination, and their great social and religious revolutions. The great causes which led to this social and religious changes are manifest to the reader, and he follows the gradual development of ancient Hindu civilisaton through thirty centuries, from 2000 B.C. to 1000 years after christ. Though many hundreds of books have been written on the subject, but the work of R.C.Dutt stands as a monument in presenting Ancient Indian history to the readers in a style which is as fresh and interesting today as when it was released for the first time more than a century ago. PP VOL. 22 +390, VOL 2. 11+363, index, bibliography, 22 14 cm, cloth binding.
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