India Rediscovered in not just another title. India always needed to be rediscovered for the future making of the nation. It needed to be rediscovered in the context of interplay of its inherent spirit and changing material conditions althrough the past.

1. India Rediscovered
India Rediscovered in not just another title. India always needed to be rediscovered for
the future making of the nation. It needed to be rediscovered in the context of interplay
of its inherent spirit and changing material conditions althrough the past. It needed to be
rediscovered in the cycles of rise and fall, revival and rejuvenation of all its civilizational
and cultural ethos. It needed to be rediscovered for a better understanding of the
causes of a number of misgivings and misconceptions with a view to find a more
positive and rational path of its rebuilding and finally it needed to be rediscovered to
listen to the call of the age.
 The book fails in the line of some exceptional writings on India's past to its
present in a surveying manner and style.
 Analyses the direction of Indian History on the basis of the interrelationship of
spirit and matter with regard to general will of the people.
 Evaluates the progress of civilization and culture, state and society in India in
terms of maximum and total efficiency during different eras of Indian history
which is altogether a new vision of looking at India's past.
 Very well studded with references and an exhaustive theme - index at the end
of the benefit of readers and research in the field and hence a big contribution to
the knowledge.
About Author: Dr.Mahesh Vikram is a professor of history in the department of history,
Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi. He is serving the department as a
permanent faculty ever after taking his master in History in 1973 and completing his
Ph.D research on the Mauryan Society in 1979. He has been constantly engaged in
academics and been presenting a number of serious research articles at various
seminars and conferences of national and international level. A good many of these
have been published in the relevant proceedings, journals and other volumes of merit.
He has authored Society under the Mauryas published in 1984, Samyukta Rajya
America ka Itihasa (A history of United States of America - from Reconstruction to the
Cold -War) published in 1995, A peep into the Social - Political Dynamics of Early India
published in 2002 besides been contributing articles and chapters in various noticeable
volumes on Ancient Indian history.