Advanced History of India (Classic Reprint)

Conference and every time put in a strong plea for making vernaculars the medium of instruction. He occupied many other public positions with honour to himself and credit to the bodies on which he served as a member. But he was pre-eminently a scholar. All his writings are characterised by brevity, clarity and sound judgment. He never accepted the results of investigation by other students without an independent critical examination. It was in this spirit that he commenced his Advanced History of India .B ut before he could complete it he was snatched away by death in 1931, at the age of sixty-eight. In response to the request of his family, the Andhra University undertook to publish this last work of his and entrusted its editing toM r. Gurty Venkata Rao, M.A,,LL.B ,R eader inH istory. A close examination of the manuscript showed that the gifted author had not sufficient time to be thoroughly comprehensive and complete, and the portions subsequent to the Hindu Period were too inadequately dealt with to be fit for publication. The Hindu Period, however, could after a certain amount of revision form a valuable addition to our historical literature. In spite of the difficulty of appreciating anothers individual mode and outlook, Mr. Gurty Venkata Rao brought to bear on the subject a rare sympathy and abundance of his own knowledge and researches, and revised the text thoroughly, rewriting certain portions and supplying certain omissions. In fact I am inclined to say that the work in its present form is almost a joint production.
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