Moscow, Mysl Publishing House. 1973. 558 p. Circulation 18,000. Price 2 rubles. 71 kopecks The problems of Indian history have long attracted the attention of scientists in our country. The Soviet Union has developed a school of indologists who intensively study the problems of history, economy, culture, and social thought of the great Asian country. The result of their efforts was a four-volume major work on the history of India from ancient times to modern times inclusive . It was on the basis of this work that it became possible to write a generalizing and at the same time concise essay on the history of the country, the authors of which-prominent Soviet indologists from the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences, who actively participated in the creation of the above-mentioned four-volume work-K. A. Antonova, G. M. Bongard-Levin and G. G. Kotovsky However, they also introduced a number of new sources into scientific circulation, set and solved a number of important research tasks. "History of India" helps to understand the complex processes that are taking place in modern India. The section on the ancient history of Hindustan, written by G. M. Bongard-Levin, introduces the origins of the remarkable culture of the peoples of Hindustan, shows how the Indian civilization was formed. The attraction of archaeological materials along with written sources allowed us to make a number of interesting scientific generalizations, clarify many facts and, in particular, the dating and location of a number of ancient Indian monuments. Thus, it was found that the Rig Veda - the oldest literary monument of the Indo-Aryan peoples-was formed in the north-eastern regions of Punjab. It also analyzes such important problems as the peculiarities of the origin of slavery and the beginning of the formation of feudal relations. 1 "Modern History of India", M. 1959; "New History of India", M. 1961; "History of India in the Middle Ages", M. 1968; "Ancient India", M. ... Read more