"In his diary, Hsuan Tsang has recorded that India was divided into five divisions or to use his language, there were …"

"The age in which true history appeared in India was one of great intellectual and spiritual ferment. Mystics and soph…"

"“At most periods of her history India, though a cultural unit, has been torn by internecine war. In statecraft, her r…"

"Historians usually focus their attention on the past of countries that still exist, writing hundreds and thousands of…"

"Nothing should more deeply shame the modern student than the recency and inadequacy of his acquaintance with India. H…"

"In the present context, the link between history-writing and actual politics is extra-ordinarily strong. Witness the …"

"The history of modern India tells us a complex, surprising, captivating, and yet unconcluded story of freedom. It is …"

"The effort to read the problem of India in the set terms of Marxism is rather an exercise in ingenuity than a serious…"

"History is the one weak spot in Indian Literature. It is, in fact, non-existent."

"Indians of old were keenly alive to the expansion of dominions, acquisition of wealth, and the development of trade, …"