Later Hindu Civilisation

IT IS with mingled feelings of pleasure and diffidence that I now place this completed work before the public. The great task of compiling for the first time a connected and clear history of the Ancient Hindus requires greater leisure and more extensive reading than I can lay claim to. Years of study, often interrupted enabled me, however, to grasp the leading facts» and during the last three years I have worked continuously in moments spared from official duties to arrange these facts in their present shape.