Political history of ancient India : from the accession of Parikshit to the extinction of the Gupta dynasty / Hemchandra Raychaudhuri, with a commentary by B.N. Mukherjee.

First pub. 1923.

Part I. Chapter I. Introduction Chapter II. Kurus and Videhas Chapter III. Mahajanapadas and Kingship

Part II Chapter I. Introduction Chapter I. The Rise of Magadha Chapter III. The Persian and Macedonian Invasions Chapter IV. The Maurya Empire: The Era of Digvijaya Chapter V. The Maurya Empire: The Era of Dhamavijaya and Decline Chapter VI. The Baimbika-Sunga Empire and the Bactrian Greeks Chapter VII. The Fall of the Magadhan and Indo-Greek Powers Chapter VIII. Scythian Rule in Northern India Chapter IX. Scythian Rule in Southern and western india Chapter X. The Gupta Empire: The Rise o The Gupta power Chapter XI. The Gupta Empire (continued): The Age of the Vikramadityas Chapter XII. The Gupta empire(continued): The Later Guptas

This text, first published in 1923, has been established as a work of sound scholarship. The eighth edition, updated with all the latest research in a separate commentary should prove useful to historians, teachers and students of early Indian history.