When, as a young man, you went in 1887 to the Department of Coins and Medals in British Museum, the early History of India was still largely a blank: that in the forty-four intervening years so much of that blank has been filled in is due in no small measure to the patience, insight, and meticulous accuracy of your researches. Those who have contributed to his volume, in witnessing to the esteem in which you are held by Indologists of all parts of the world, ...
