A History of India, Third Edition

First published 1986 in hardback by

Croom Helm Australia Pty Ltd

Second edition first published 1990 in paperback

This edition first published 1998 by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by

Routledge

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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.

© 1986, 1990, 1998 Hermann Kulke and

Dietmar Rothermund

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the

British Library

Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data

Kulke, Hermann.

A History of India/Hermann Kulke and Dietmar

Rothermund.—3rd ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. India-History. I. Rothermund, Dietmar. II. Title.
   DS436.K8513 1998 97–14068 CIP
   954–dc

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