The book covers an interesting and colourful period of Indian history. The period from the invasion of Alexander, the great, up to the coming of the imperial Guptas in Magadha witnessed the influx of foreign people with different ethnic and racial characteristics and religious customs, leading to significant changes in social and economic conditions in north India. It is rightly observed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (V-25), "a few areas of the world's ...
