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Synopsis 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, desire to express their admiration both for the patient investigator in two of the most important and difficult branches of their science, numismatics and paleography, and for the courageous author and editor of the Cambridge History of India. For twenty five years, as Professor of Sanskrit in the University of Cambridge, you have worthily upheld the tradition of your great predecessors. Studies initiated under your guidance have carried your pupils into different paths; but they joint together here to express to you their profound feeling of gratitude and affection for a Guru who, never sparing himself, has given them always encouragement, help, and ungrudging friendship.