A History of South India - K. A. Nilakanta Sastri

A History of South India by K. A. Nilakanta Sastri

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Book Name : A History of South India

Author : K. A. Nilakanta Sastri

Language : English

Pages : 540

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Contents on the Book

CONTENTS

I. SURVEY OF THE SOURCES

IL. THE LAND IN RELATION TO HSTORY

34

IlI. THE EARLIEST PEOPLES AND CULTURES

49

IV. THE DAWN OF HISTORY: ARYANIZATION .

65

V. THE AGE OF THE MAURYAN EMPIRE

79

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VI. THE SĀTAVĀHANAS AND THEIR SUCCESSORS

88

THE AGE OF THE ŠANGAM AND AFTER VIL.

VIII. CONFLICT OF THREE EMPIRES  

IX. THE BALANCE OF Two EMPIRES

X. THE AGE OF THE FOUR KINGDOMS

XI. THE BÃHMANĪS AND THE RISE OF VIJAYANAGAR

XII. THE EMPIRE OF VIJAYANAGAR

303

XIII. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS

XIV. LITERATURE

XV. RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

XVI. ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Preface

THE aim, scope and plan of the book are cxplained in the intro- ductory part of Chapter I, and this Preface is meant primarily to be an acknowledgement of the assistance I have received in the preparation of the book. It was not, however, till I began to plan the chapters of the book and the details of their scctions that I came to realize how little equipped I was for the task and how much I had to depend on the co-operation of others for its fulfil-ment. But the help I so much necded was forthcoming in ample

measure, particularly from my colleagues in the allied departments of study in the University, and this enabled me to press on with the work in spite of difficulties and complete it in a little over a year from its commencement.

Chapter II on the geography of South India in relation to its history owes a great deal to the invaluable aid of Mr V. Kalyana-sundaram of the Geography Department, who, in addition, drew

all the maps accompanying the book, with the assistance of Mr R. Tirumalai (Research Scholar) on the historical side. In writing Chapter III on the prehistory of South India Professor T. Bala-

krishnan Nayar of Presidency College gave me aid of no less im-portance. Chapters IV-XIII, comprising the core of political history and a sketch of social and economic conditions, and Chapter XV on Religion and Philosophy are based primarily on published sources and the work of carlier authors in the field to which

references are given at the end of every chapter; but they incorpo- rate also the results of much unpublished work, my students' as well as my own, carried on in the University for over seventeen years, and this must be taken into account for any differences from current views that the reader may notice. Chapter XIV on Literature covers very wide ground and indebtedness to my friends is correspondingly heavy: to the late Dr T. R. Chintamani and to

Dr V. Raghavan, both of the Sanskrit Department, for the section on Sanskrit; to Mr S. Vaiyapuri Pillai for that on Tamil; to Mr M. Mariappa Bhat for Kannada; to Mr S. Kameswara Rao (Rescarch Scholar) and Dr N. Venkataramanayya for Telugu; and lastly, to Mr K. Kanakasabhapati Pillai (Research Fellow) and Mr P. Krishnan Nayar of the Malayalam Department for

Malayalam. I must not omit to make special mention of the fact that the task of sketching the history of South Indian architecture and art was rendered particularly easy by the excellent guidance furnished by Percy Brown's monumental survey of the subject which leaves all the older work on the subject at a great distance.

wish to make it clear that though I have availed myself of the co-operation, very willingly given, of so many scholars, they are in no way responsible for the views that find expression in this book.

The sources of the various illustrations are indicated in the list of Plates and our thanks are due to the authorities concerned for permission to reproduce them here.

K. A. N.

UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS

10 August 1947

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