This book is about the prehistoric, ancient and Hindu India, and covers several aspects such as physical features of India, the races of India and their languages, earlier Indo-Aryans and the Dravidians, Vedic Literature, the Epic Literature of India.
The book also talks about Jainism, Buddhism.
Besides, sixteen kingdoms of the north, the Persian conquest of northwestern India, the Maurya empire, Greek invasions, Dravidian dynasties of the South, the culture of northern India, Gupta empire of northern India, southern dynasties of the early medieval period, early medieval culture of southern India, the origin of the Rajputs and the rise of the Gurjara empire, the early medieval kingdoms of north-eastern India, the late medieval dynasties of the south, the medieval history of Kasmira, and the Muhammadan conquest of northern India are some of the topics of the book.
In short, the book covers an ocean of information, and facts in a to the point manner, thus making it readable. |
