• ISBN13: 9788121238670
• Binding: Paperback
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• Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
• Publisher Imprint: Gyan Publishing House
• Publication Date: January 1, 2020
• Pages: 33
• Original Price: INR 60.0
• Language: English
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• Item Weight: 152 grams
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Through this little work, the author has discussed briefly the main landmark in the history of Kalinga for a period more than seven hundred years, from the conquest of Samudra Gupta in the 4th century A.D. up to the accession of Anantavanman Codganga in A.D. 1078. Although the time is not yet ripe for writing a detailed history of the period, it would be useful as a necessary preliminary such study, to prepare a skeleton or framework of political history by a critical and comprehensive study of all the available data. Much speculation has been made regarding the boundaries of Kalinga. There is no doubt that they varied from time to time without going into this vexed question, the author would assume, for the purpose of the present paper, that the country extended from the Mahanadi to the Godavari river. The first definite idea of the political history of Kalinga during the period under review is obtained from the Allahabad Pillar Inscription of Samudra Gupta. The subject of the book is good from the historical point view and also interesting for the common readers

Ramesh Chandra Majumdar was a historian and professor of Indian history. He was a former Sheriff of Kolkata. He started his research on ancient India. After extensive travels to Southeast Asia and research, he wrote detailed histories of Champa (1927), Suvarnadvipa (1929) and Kambuja Desa. On the initiative of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, he took up the mantle of editing a multi-volume tome on Indian history. Starting in 1951, he toiled for twenty-six long years to describe the history of the Indian people from the Vedic Period to the present day in eleven volumes. In 1955, Majumdar established the College of Indology of Nagpur University and joined as Principal. In 1958–59, he taught Indian history in the University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania. He was also the president of the Asiatic Society (1966–68) and the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad (1968–69), and also the Sheriff of Calcutta (1967–68). When the final volume of "The History and Culture of the Indian People" was published in 1977, he had turned eighty-eight. He also edited the three-volume history of Bengal published by Dacca University. His last book was "Jivaner Smritidvipe