an endeavour has been made to add to the existing material by including photographs from my own collection made in India. Other persons also have kindly aided in carrying out this part of the plan as designed, by granting permission to reproduce pictures which were their special property.
Among the obligations which both the publishers and myself most cordially recognize is an indebtedness to Mr. Holland Thompson, A. M., Instructor in History in the College of the City of New York, who rendered generous assistance in connection with the preparation of the text to conform with the needs of the series, and for aid in making the index.
With these words I present the volume, recalling the reader once more from the present to the past, to the early ages of India before and after the Christian era.
A. V. Williams Jackson.
