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About the book:-IT is in no spirit of disparagement towards the works of predecessors that the following pages are offered to the reader. Many of those works are, in their several ways, of much value. Nevertheless, all are open to some objection: are too bulky; have grown obsolete owing to the discovery of new matter or are insufficient for the purposes of the student. It is with a full sense of the difficulties of their task that the present work has been undertaken. The writer has endeavoured to give, without prolixity, a statement of the relevant facts at present available, both in regard to the origin of the more important Indian races, and in regard to their progress before they came under the unifying processes of modern administration: and the tracing of that evolution forms the subject of the first chapters. In the residue will be found the brief relation of that unprecedented series of events under which a remote commercial people have begun to weld those races into a single nationality. The obstacles to success in both of these respects were perceived by Elphinstone, whose own labours have done so much for students of the subject. So far back as 1833, apparently contemplating a complete treatment of both the periods of Indian history, he wrote to Erskine, the translator of Babar’s memoirs, endeavouring to convince him, that a history of the Mughal Empire would necessarily involve “a complete history of India,” extending at least as far down as Warren Hastings, the inadequacy of whose record by James Mill he was the first to point out. Some years after- wards Elphinstone took in hand a portion of the task, and recorded in his diary the noble conception that sound know- ledge and opinions ought to be diffused through India, till the people were capable of producing indigenous statesmanship for the government of themselves. The book was first published in 1893. About the Author:- Henry George Keene CIE (1826 –1915) was an English historian of medieval and modern India. Keene was born at the East India College, Haileybury. Henry George Keene (1781–1864) was his father. He was educated at Rugby School and Wadham College, Oxford, going to India as an East India Company employee in 1847. His career as an official was limited, but he began to write. From 1847 to 1882 Keene served in the Bengal Civil Service. During the Indian Rebellion of 1857 he was Superintendent at Dehra Doon. In his subsequent service Keene was in frequent disagreement with his superiors, and when he reached the 35 years' limit he had not got beyond the grade of a district and sessions Judge. He retired with the decoration of CIE, and with a literary reputation. Keene died on 26 March 1915. The Title 'History Of India: From The Earliest Times To The Present Day For The Use Of Students And Colleges (vol 1) written/authored/edited by H. G. Keene', published in the year 2021. The ISBN 9788121221825 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 496 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is . Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol:- Vol. 1st. PODI