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Thank you RBSI for this excellent book. I have great respect for the late Prof. R. N. Dandekar and lament his death. I last saw him at Pune during the All India Oriental Conference in 1993.

Some history books can be very drab to read. No graphics, no pictures just endless text, that too smudged.

This book has me confused about the Gupt period.

@ Sekhar Sathe I have not studied this book carefully but tell me, leaving aside this book, do you see any other problems in the history of the Gupta period? I am aghast that these writers (initially mainly British) and their followers drag the Bhagavad Gita to the 'Gupta period'. As Sir Charles Eliot writes, this is surely a mistake. A similar opinion is expressed by the respected British Sanskritist J. L. Brockington. They place the great text somewhere around the 2nd century B. C. which I find sensible.

what a glorious book rbsi. iam going to read every bit of it. thanks a million.

Ranajit Pal: Mr. Dandekar jumps to third century AD without any ref to Sikandar.....

I cannot immediately address the problem but in my opinion Dandekar was a far greater thinker than A.L. Basham or R. Thapar.

I am currently working on Gupta history. I did not get the meaning of comment where Sikandar (Alexander) is mentioned by Mr Shekhar. Most of the Gupta history is supported on two inscriptions, first is Allahabad Pillar Inscription of Samudragupta and another is copper plate of Prabhavati Gupta who was a queen of a Vakataka ruler. I would like to know abt this Sikandar connection if you can elaborate?