Reconstructing Indian History for S.R. Goyal is a stimulating survey of different periods and aspects of Indian history and culture in four volumes. This is a unique volume containing research articles dedicated to the multi-faceted historiography of Professor S.R. Goyal who, at the ripe young age of 70, is one the most eminent historians of the country today. With more than a hundred articles, a large number of photographs and a carefully chiselled intellectual and academic biography of Prof. Goyal the present work successfully illumines many a shadowy corridor of India’s past-from the earliest times to the present day. It provides an unparalleled source of insight into the changing pattern of Indian history and civilization incorporating the latest researches on the subject. Perceptive and insightful, these volumes will prove to be an indispensable reference work and an interesting and invaluable asset not only to the academicians, historians, researchers and libraries but to the lay readers as well.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shankar Goyal
Dr. Shankar Goyal (b. 1959), the young and ebullient author of the present monograph, is emerging very rapidly as one of the recognized authorities on the historiography of ancient India. He has already produced three monographs dealing with some aspects of ancient Indian history writing viz. History and Historiography of the Age of Harsha (Jodhpur, 1992), Aspects of Ancient Indian History and Historiography (New Delhi, 1993) and History Writing of Early India (Jodhpur, 1996). He has co-edited a number of works with such eminent scholars as Professors G.C. Pande, B. Ch. Chhabra and Jagannath Agrawal which are directly or indirectly concerned with this discipline, including Political History in a Changing World (Jodhpur, 1992), Reappraising Gupta History (New Delhi, 1992) and S.R. Goyal: His Multidimensional Historiography (New Delhi, 1992). He has also-co-edited several other monographs with Shri M.C. Joshi and Dr. Sobhag Maghur which include King Chandra and the Meharauli Pillar (Meerut, 1989), Spectrum of Nehru’s Thought (New Delhi, 1994) and Rajasthan Bharati, in two volumes (Jodhpur, 1995) and authored more than seventy research articles. His research output in a period of less than six years has been stupendous, and its originality and quality superb, as is evident from the reviews of his works appearing in national and international journals. Dr. Shankar Goyal did his graduation from the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, post-graduation from the Deccan College, Pune, and Doctrate on Main Trends in Indian Historiography Since Independence from the University of Jodhpur, Jodhpur, where he is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History.
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