Culture through the Ages

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This is a volume brought out to felicitate Dr. Baij Nath Puri, Prof. Emeritus, Lucknow University, on his 80th birthday. The papers in this volume deal with different aspects of history of India, Sri Lanka & Southeast Asia, from pre-historic times to the present, and are not bound by any narrow, exclusive theme. That is doubtless most apposite, as Dr. Puri’s own work bears no barriers of subject, time or place. Among those who write to honour him are senior historians, as well as bright young scholars seeking a niche for themselves in the groves of academe. This volume contains 48 papers & 8 tributes. The papers are presented in a sequence dictated by chronological & thematic consideration without division into sections that would detract from history’s unbroken flow. We have tried, our best, to achieve a measure of uniformity in both transliteration & documentation. This volume is edited by Shri Sarva Daman Singh, Eminent Historian, Department of History, The University of Queensland, Australia.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sarva Daman Singh

Professor Sarva Daman Singh, M.A., Ph.D. (London), Ph.D. (Qld.), won five gold medals during the course of a brilliant academic career at universities of Lucknow and London. He has held chairs of Indian history, culture and archaeology in more institutions than one; and has taught at the University of Lucknow, the National Academy of Administration at Mussoorie, the Vikram University at Ujjain, in India, and the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. His publications include research papers too numerous to list, and monographs as The Archaeology of the Lucknow Region (Lucknow, 1972), and Polyandry in Ancient India (Delhi, 1978), besides the First Edition of this book published from Leiden in 1965. In international conferences in Asia, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, his views have always commanded the attention of the scholarly world.