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This book was originally intended to be a part of the readership lectures to be delivered at the Calcutta university in 1920 Official duties and ill health of the author did not enable him to carry this out. It was then released as a separate volume. This book has 19 chapters; 1.The beginning of the South Indian history 2 Brahmanism in the Tamil land; 3 Connection with Ceylon (mostly hostile); 4 South India, the seat of orthodox Hinduism; 5 The school of Bhakti; 6 The Kural, 7 Rise of the Pallavas, 8 Early history of the Pallavas, 9 History of these Pallavas, 10 Pallavas and the Gangas; 11 Kanchi, the Seat of the Pallavas, 12 Saivism; 13 Literature of saivism, 14 Vira Saivism, 15, Vaishnavism in South India, 16, Muhammadan invasions; 17 The Vijayanagar empire, 18 Greater India, expansion of India beyond the Seas, and 19 Administrative evolution in South India. This book is a reprint of the 1923 edition.