''An Advanced History of India'' is a book on

Indian history According to consensus in modern genetics, anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago. Quote: "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by m ...

written by

R.C. Majumdar Ramesh Chandra Majumdar (known as R. C. Majumdar; 4 December 1888 – 11 February 1980) was a historian and professor of History of India, Indian history. Majumdar is a noted historian of modern India. He was a former Sheriff of Kolkata. Early ...

, H.C. Raychaudhuri and Kalikinkar Datta, first published in 1946. This renowned book consists of two parts. And similarly, according to the periods, the same are divided into more parts. For example, part I, ancient India, the second part of the same volume consists of the Medieval and Mughal periods. Two parts of the second Volume are based on modern India. The Book 1 is on the Rise and Growth of the British Power while Book 2 establishes details on political relations, administrative reforms of British India until independence of India into Pakistan and India. A separate section has been later added on separation of Bangladesh from Pakistan. J. Coatman wrote in a review in the journal ''International Affairs'' that this book is "easily the most valuable history of India for the serious student." According to his review, the first part on Ancient India "epitomizes all that the most recent as well as older scholarship has to tell us about this fascinating period...", and the "

Muslim Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...

and British parts of India's history are treated with fairness and dignity and attention is drawn to the fundamentals of history - the growth of institutions, social and economic developments, and so on. Nowhere is there any rhetoric or mere opinion."J. Coatman, Review in International Affairs, Vol. 23, No. 3. (Jul., 1947), p. 443

References

History books about India 1946 non-fiction books Macmillan Publishers books

External links

* Borrowable library copy of the 4th edition (1978) at archive.org
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