History Culture Indian People Classical Age (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. Fifth. It maintains the leading trait of the series viz. to devote more attention to the social and cultural aspects of the story than to the purely political side, and the narrative of dynastic struggles and wars?.The political history is generally complete and up-to-date and a great amount of authentic information on social and economic history has been culled and presented systematically for the first time.

Condition: Bon. 758pp & XLIIIpl Bombay, 1962, in-8, 758pp & XLIIIpl, Reliure éditeur jaquette illustrée, Superbe exemplaire! in-8. 758pp & XLIIIpl.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. 3rd edition. 3rd edition, 1970. A Very Good book in a Good- dust jacket. 4to., 758 pp., bound in publishers grey cloth with yellow dust jacket. Jacket is rubbed, worn and chipped with some minor losses. Previous sellers price stamp inside front cover. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.

A complete set, formed from later editions, of this history of India until 1947. It was the most comprehensive history written in the years after independence, framing the country as "a living entity with a central continuous urge" (Brown) that predated and would outlast the colonial period. This series is the realization of the ambitions of the activist, politician, and writer Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (1887-1971). In 1938 he founded Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, an educational trust that now operates hundreds of schools across India and other programmes worldwide. Almost immediately afterwards, he started to plan a full history of India, initially in ten volumes, funded by the Indian businessman Ghanshyam Das Birla (1894-1983). In 1945, Munshi invited Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, the former vice-chancellor of Dacca University, to lead the project as the general editor. Majumdar put together a team of scholars from across India to write this mammoth work. The first two volumes were published in 1951 in England and the final volume was published in 1977. Munshi wrote a foreword to the first six volumes but did not live to see the project completed. The series covers all of the major periods of Indian history in unprecedented detail, augmented with maps, photographs, diagrams, and dynastic trees. This set is of mixed editions in a variety of bindings. Four of the volumes (I, III, IX, and XI) were published as part of the 1988 celebration of the centenary of Munshi's birth. In Volume VI, the contents page calls for four maps, but they were not issued in this edition. W. Norman Brown, "Review of The Vedic Age", Far Eastern Survey, vol. 21, no. 8, 1952. 11 vols, octavo. With 244 half-tone photographic plates (1 folding, 1 double page), 13 maps (2 folding, 1 colour and folding), folding table, illustrations and maps in text. Original cloth of varying colours, spines and covers lettered in red, black, or gilt. With dust jackets. Inscription of one Rav A. of Onslow Gardens, Muswell Hill, 12th May 1992 to front pastedown of vol. IV. Spine ends and some tips slightly bumped, a few front inner hinges just starting, small closed tears neatly repaired; jackets unclipped, spines a little sunned, a few nicks and creases: a very good set in like jackets.