Study on Religion and Philosophy in Ancient India

ABSTRACT

In the late 1970s they first embarked on this joint venture at the request of a German publisher. The German edition of this volume was published in 1982. The first English edition was published by David Croom of Croom Helm, London, in 1986. Subsequently the rights were acquired by Routledge, London, and ever since the Routledge editorial team has been helpful in bringing out several new editions of this text which seem to have attracted many readers. Inspired by this interest in their work the authors have prepared this thoroughly revised edition in January 1997. They updated the text not only with regard to recent history, they also tried to take into account all major new publications in the field so as to reflect the state of the art in historical research. They have benefited from numerous discussions with Indian, British and American colleagues many of whom cannot read their German publications and, therefore, they are glad to be able to communicate with them in this way. But, of course, this history of India is not primarily devoted to a dialogue among historians, it is written for the student and the general reader. 

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