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A History of Vakataka-Gupta Relations

 
S.R. Goyal (Author)
Synopsis The Indian subcontinent was dominated by the Imperial Guptas and the Vakatakas for some two and a half centuries beginning mid-third century A.D. Numerous works on these dynasties have appeared in English and Hindi, specially on the Imperial Guptas. But a separate volume exclusively devoted to the study of their mutual relations has still been a desideratum. It has become an imperative in the light of recent epigraphical and numismatic finds. The author of this monograph has looked upon Vakataka-Gupta relations from the peep hole of literacy sources as well which, if interpreted correctly, presents a very interesting pattern of their changing relationship. The present work is the first research monograph from an authoritative pen throwing light on this so far neglected aspect of ancient Indian history.
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About the author

S.R. Goyal

Professor S.R. Goyal is the retired Professor and Head, Department of History, J.N.V. University, Jodhpur. Described as ‘one of the five best recent historians of ancient India’ by Professor David N. Lorenzen, the great Mexican Orientalist, Professor Goyal combines all the qualities associated with scientific scholarship. He has authored more than thirty voluminous works and over 150 research papers which cover so diverse fields as political history, religious history, literature, biographies, numismatics and epigraphy. He was honoured with the General Presidentship of the Silver Jubilee Congress of the Epigraphical Society of India held at Udupi in 1999 and was elected the Honorary Fellow of the Soceity. His doctoral thesis, A History of the Imperial Guptas (1967), was acclaimed as ‘the best analysis of the Gupta period which I have ever read’ by Professor A.L. Basham (National Professor of Australia) and as ‘imaginative’, ‘well-written’ and ‘a model of historiography’ by Professor Eleanor Zelliot (Minnesota, U.S.A.). The various theories propounded in it are described by Professor R.C. Majumdar as ‘deserving very careful consideration’. Among his other major works are included three corpus-like volumes on ancient Indian inscriptions, two volumes respectively on Kautilya and Megasthenes, a three volume authoritative study of ancient Indian history in about two thousand pages, a three volume study of ancient Indian numismatics, and four volumes on great rulers of ancient India. Professor Goyal is deeply involved with the study of the history of Indian religions. He has published two volumes entitled A Religious History of Ancient India (Vol. I, 1984; Vol. II, 1986), Harsha and Buddhism (1986) and A History of Indian Buddhism (1987). All these works of his have been highly acclaimed and admired both in India and abroad. Professor Goyal has been honoured with several Festschrifts, including Reappraising Gupta History for S.R. Goyal (ed. By Professor B.Ch. Chhabra et al) and S.R. Goyal: His Multidimensional Historiography (ed. By Professor Jagannath Agrawal and Dr. Shankar goyal). A four volume Festschrift in his honour entitled Sriramabhinandam (Reconstructing Indian History for S.R. Goyal) has recently been published).

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Title A History of Vakataka-Gupta Relations
Author S.R. Goyal
Format Hardcover
Date published: 31.01.2006
Edition 1st ed.
Language: English
length xxiv+154p.
Subjects History