Indian Culture (Journal of the Indian Research Institute) July - September 1946

The excellent character of this new Journal and the high standard of articles published in it and the enterprise and devotion of the group of the Bengali scholars seem to make Indian Culture rightly and completely fill the great void created by the unfortunate discontinuance of the great epoch-making Journal the Indian Antiquary. [...] The present book is one of the more extensive writings of the author and goes to illustrate his special strength in Indian historical researches namely a most conscientious and painstaking accumulation of the data which go to elucidate the progress of the country in the different fields of culture. [...] The result is the presentation in a volume of limited extent of a comprehensive picture of ancient Indian life as lived both in the palaces of the rich and hamlets of the poor. [...] F. W. Thomas.—It seems to me to be an excellent work one of the best of your writings The precision and exactness of its statements and the aptness of the citations render it eminently suitable for forming and conveying to students a correct idea of the main features of Buddhist doctrine. [...] Of interest to the Pauranic geographer is the reference to the places like Ramagräma in the land of the Koliyas where the eight stapas and a caitya were erected by Agoka.