Ancient India

The present volume is the first of a series of EPOCHS OF INDIAN HISTORY. To write a history of India on the scale of a Freeman, or even of a Macaulay, would, from the multiplicity and diversity of details, be a task of superhuman magnitude. The story of Indian during the past four thousand years in the story not of one country but of many countries, not for one nation but of many nations, told not in one language but in many languages, and influenced in turn by the greatest religions of the world. The present series will endeavour to correct this tendency by assigning each epoch to a writer who has made it a subject of special research; while it will be the task of the Editor to endaveour to preserve continuity on the one hand and to prevent overlapping on the other.