This concise account of the history of India from the earliest ages to the fall of the East India Company and proclamation of Queen Victoriya in 1858 was meant to be a text book for those students of India's past who were interested in joining the ranks of administratiors, social campaigners and the inmates of seminaries of India. The Book starting with the account of the aborigines, the Vedic times the days of Rama, the rise and decline of Buddhism and the Puranic period goes to study the rise and spread of Mohammadanism, the various Muslim dynasties that ruled India the Mujhals and their followers.