MAJUMDAR, Ramesh Chandra (ed.).

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The History and Culture of the Indian People. A complete set, formed from later editions, of this history of India until 1947. It was the most comprehensive history written in the years after independence, framing the country as "a living entity with a central continuous urge" (Brown) that predated and would outlast the colonial period. This series is the realization of the ambitions of the activist, politician, and writer Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (1887-1971). In 1938 he founded Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, an educational trust that now operates hundreds of schools across India and other programmes worldwide. Almost immediately afterwards, he started to plan a full history of India, initially in ten volumes, funded by the Indian businessman Ghanshyam Das Birla (1894-1983). In 1945, Munshi invited Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, the former vice-chancellor of Dacca University, to lead the project as the general editor.Majumdar put together a team of scholars from across India to write this mammoth work. The first two volumes were published in 1951 in England and the final volume was published in 1977. Munshi wrote a foreword to the first six volumes but did not live to see the project completed. The series covers all of the major periods of Indian history in unprecedented detail, augmented with maps, photographs, diagrams, and dynastic trees.This set is of mixed editions in a variety of bindings. Four of the volumes (I, III, IX, and XI) were published as part of the 1988 celebration of

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