History of India

History of India : Modern History (Vol.3) by P.C. Jain, R.S Raman Volume three is broadly the history of modern India which is usually considered to begin with the emergence of Euro-pean powers and the Europe’s influence in everything, culture, lifestyle, education-system, art, architecture … and is hence more a subject-related concept, not so much the time-defined. More than the dates the volume is concerned about the spirit of an event. Least framed into periodicity it intrudes into the medieval era by centuries beginning with European navigators, such as Vasco de Gama, landing at Calicut in 1498 AD. By 1500 or 1510 AD, the Europeans had begun settling on Indian subcontinent. P. C. Jain, the editor of ‘History of India’, an instinctive poet, linguist and aesthetician, began his career in 1961 as a university teacher.