India Rediscovered

1. India Rediscovered India Rediscovered in not just another title. India always needed to be rediscovered for the future making of the nation. It needed to be rediscovered in the context of interplay of its inherent spirit and changing material conditions althrough the past. It needed to be rediscovered in the cycles of rise and fall, revival and rejuvenation of all its civilizational and cultural ethos. It needed to be rediscovered for a better understanding of the causes of a number of misgivings and misconceptions with a view to find a more positive and rational path of its rebuilding and finally it needed to be rediscovered to listen to the call of the age.  The book fails in the line of some exceptional writings on India's past to its present in a surveying manner and style.  Analyses the direction of Indian History on the basis of the interrelationship of spirit and matter with regard to general will of the people. Evaluates the progress of civilization and culture, state and society in India in terms of maximum and total efficiency during different eras of Indian history which is altogether a new vision of looking at India's past.  Very well studded with references and an exhaustive theme - index at the end of the benefit of readers and research in the field and hence a big contribution to the knowledge. About Author: Dr.Mahesh Vikram is a professor of history in the department of history, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi. He is serving the department as a permanent faculty ever after taking his master in History in 1973 and completing his Ph.D research on the Mauryan Society in 1979. He has been constantly engaged in academics and been presenting a number of serious research articles at various seminars and conferences of national and international level. A good many of these have been published in the relevant proceedings, journals and other volumes of merit. He has authored Society under the Mauryas published in 1984, Samyukta Rajya America ka Itihasa (A history of United States of America - from Reconstruction to the Cold -War) published in 1995, A peep into the Social - Political Dynamics of Early India published in 2002 besides been contributing articles and chapters in various noticeable volumes on Ancient Indian history.