HISTORY OF INDIA
By Sir George Dunbar
Sir George Dunbar, after scrving irr the Indian Army, has devoted his time for some years since he retired-in assembling the material of a new. History of India (Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 12s. (id.), which he .now presents hi it: well-printed volume, with excellent illiistratibni- and good maps. His purpose is " to compile a History of India from the stand- point of the governed; rather than the many :riders of the country." The reader is thiss. led to expect a-tale of move- ments rather than motinrchs; -nod of social conditions in'town and country, of culture and -folk-lore rather than of battle and intrigue. In a word, he, might think that here is a volume to place as 'a more up-to-date companion beside Vincent Smith's Oxford History. But the expectation is disappointed, for Sir George Dunbar has followed the line of that earlier text-book without really superseding it. None the less, to those who seek an introduction to Inditiri history, his book may be recommended.
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