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Proceedings of the Indian History Congress Ninth Session Patna University Patna

1946

The unity of India is to be found in the ample range of her holy places of pilgrimage in the names of the rivers and mountains of the country which are as music to the ear of an Indian in the firm hold on the popular mind of her noble epics and ballads whose characters and situations are lovingly localised in every part of India and even in IndoChina. [...] union and dissension neglect of sea-power and failure to catch up with the advances in the art of warfare among the newly risen nations of the West leading to the gradual and inevitable subjugation of the entire country to the most talented if also the most fortunate among the nations of Europe that competed for the rich prize in the East. [...] The truth of the matter is inequality of various kinds is real among men and you have to take account of them in the dispositions of society ; the West has chosen the path of proclaiming equality in theory and for the rest of it except for the vote which seems now to satisfy nobody following the philosophy of 'devil take the hindmost' in the arrangements of daily life ; the economic consequence [...] It is the task of the historians of India to delineate impartially the successive phases of the country's development through the ages and enable the reader to arrive at a just appraisal of the good and the had the strength and the weakness that marked it at every stage. [...] That Indian historical writing at its best can hold its own in comparison with that of the rest of the world is seen clearly from the published work of recent times ; and the first volume of the History of Bengal issued from Dacca and the sixth volume of the New History of the Indian People the first to be published in the twenty-volume scheme of the Bharatiya ltihas Parishad are clearly seen to
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Pages
465
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.145661
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Cover
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Preface
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Presidential Address
i-xxii K.A. Sastri view
Speech Of Lt. Col. Sir C. P. N. Singh Kr. M.A. C.I.E. M.L.A. Vice Chancellor Patna University and Chairman of the Reception Committee
1-30 unknown view
Section I. Ancient India (up to 711 A.D.)
31-124 unknown view
Section II. Ancient India
125-202 unknown view
Section III. Early Medieval India from 1206 to 1526 A.D.
203-264 unknown view
Section IV. Later Medieval India from 1526 to 1764 A. D.
265-326 unknown view
Section V. Modern India
327-399 unknown view
Appendix
400-421 unknown view

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