This book contains dissertations on numerous problems relating to India’s historical geography of the ancient and medieval periods. In some of the chapters the author has edited certain important geographical texts in these as well as in many of the other chapters attempts have been made to determine the correct forms of hundreds of geographical names as well as their location. There are also some special studies such as those on the sphere of the Indian emperors influence the early Indian conceptions regarding the earth the addition of numbers of geographical names identical names of different localities cartography, and elephant forests. A mere glance at the contents will be enough to indicate the wide scope of the work. |
