The chronology of India, from the earliest times to the beginning os the sixteenth century

University Of California Libraries, C. Mabel Rickmers

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LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. ClassTHE CHRONOLOGY OF INDIA.THE CHRONOLOGY OF INDIA EARLIEST TIMESFROM THE TO THE BEGINNING OF THE CENTURYSIXTEENTH C. MABEL DUFF W. 11.(MRS. RICKMERS) N ' VB CF "HE UNIVERSITY OF Westminster ARCHIBALD & CO.CONSTABLE WHITEHALL GARDENS2, 1899STEPHEN AUSTIN AND SONS, HERTFORD.PRINTERS,PREFACE. nPHE of followed in the work is plan arrangement present " that of Clinton's of thegenerally Fynes Epitome of Greece and with such modifications asRome,"Chronologies the nature of the has made The book consists,subject necessary. of a table of events in order. Thetherefore, chronological date the B.C. or A.D. Ifrepresents year only approxi-marginal mate it is in italics. Where a date for an event exists printed in a native era it is the side of itsprinted by equivalent marginal the source from which it is whether numismaticdate, drawn, or as a indicated.rule/being,epigraphical, As. the classification of the the work followsentries,regards Clinton's method in first the civil and then thegiving literary dates. When several events occur under the same date, they are to their relativeroughly grouped according importance. Events in Northern India take of thoseprecedence generally in Southern India. Each is references to the sources from entry accompanied by which it is save in the case of well-established andderived, facts. To facilitate matters for thoseverifiableeasily engaged 216708PREFACE.VI research references to arein inscriptions speciallyepigraphical in the first line of annoted. If an isinscription quoted entry as for the the first referencedate, usuallyauthority marginal To avoid undueindicates the latest edition of that inscription. of the of a workreferences, containingmultiplication quotation has been taken as tothe of abibliography subject equivalent the references it contains.enumerating to as far as ascer-The aim of the book being give, possible, aresuch as can be fixedtained dates, only very indefinitely whose reliable dates areexcluded. In the case of onlykings no hasdrawn from or numismatic sources,epigraphical attempt save in rare to calculate thebeen made, exceptions, approximate This method excludes fromof their reigns. necessarilylength those members of a of whom no dated recordsthe Tables dynasty their names are in theexist. however,As, supplied Dynastic Inthe it will be to refer to them.Lists in quite easyAppendix absolute is attainable. Ona work like this consistency hardly thethe book will be found to follow linesthe whole, however, some circumstance.deviationsindicated, being justified by special ofWith to the Muhammadan theportion Chronology,regard histories edited Sir Elliot and Professorthe Persian Henryby British Museum CointheDowson, supplemented by Catalogues of Cliveand the works Price,Elphinstone, Briggs, Bayley, and have a deal of material.others,Blochmann, supplied great which the most dataThe work however,has, trustworthyyielded of Muhammadan rule in India and thefor the earlier period on its North-Western frontier iscountries Major Raverty's