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A quote from the book itself sums up its objective very well, ‘India, under the benign rule of England, has changed from a waste land, full of thorns and brambles, to a verdant garden, resplendent with bright and fragrant flowers ... I felt impelled to narrate to my countrymen the story of the land of their birth, from the remotest antiquity to recent times, based on historical truth, and free from party spirit or sectarian prejudice’.