A Comprehensive History of India Fourth Volume

K.M. Shrimali (b.1947), an alumnus of St Stephens College (University of Delhi), taught at his alma mater for more than a decade. Thereafter he joined the University of Delhi in 1981, where he is currently a Professor since 1986. His publications include History of Pancala, Vol. I : A Study (1983); History of Pancala, Vol. II: Corpus of Coins (1985); Agrarian Structure in Central India and the Northern Deccan: A Study in Vakataka Inscriptions (1987); Dharma, Samaj aur Sanskriti (in Hindi, 2005); and The Age of Iron and the Religious Revolution, c. 700c. 350 BC (2nd edn., 2008). Professor Shrimali was elected to preside over the Ancient Indian History Section of the Indian History Congress in 1988.

Jinism; Buddhism; Brahmanical Religious Movements; Iconography; Natha & Other Minor Cults; Saktism & Tantricism; Islam; Social Life in Northern India; Aspects of Daily Life; Women in Early Medieval North India; Society & Economy in South India; Women in Early Medieval South India; Economy of North India; Dimensions of Feudalism in Early Medieval India; Sanskrit & Prakrit Literature; Tamil Literature; Kannada Literature; Telugu Literature; Malayalam Literature; Indo-Arabic Literature; Apabhramsa Literatue; North Indian Painting; Art & Architecture of North India; Art & Architecture of South India; Inscriptions of North India; Inscriptions of South India; Coinage of North India; Coinage of South India; Money, Market & Feudalism; India's Contacts with the Outside World; Science & Technology.