Review: Social Life in Ancient India by Haran Chandra Chakladar

The second edition of this famous book appears after a span of 55 years. The work was praised as 'a complete and comprehensive study' of life in ancient India; it is scholarly and was considered to be a work of renown then, in 1929.

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बेटाई चकलदार की पुस्तक के पचपन वर्ष बाद प्रकाशित दूसरे संस्करण का स्वागत करते हैं, जिसमें वात्स्यायन के कामसूत्र के आधार पर प्राचीन भारत का सामाजिक जीवन चित्रित है। विवाह, कलाओं तथा नागरक के जीवन पर लिखे अध्यायों की वे प्रशंसा करते हैं; ग्रन्थसूची और अनुक्रमणिका का अभाव खटकता है। Betai welcomes the second edition, fifty-five years on, of Haran Chandra Chakladar's study of social life in ancient India as reflected in Vātsyāyana's Kāmasūtra. He praises the chapters on marriage, the arts and the life of the nāgaraka, and regrets the absence of bibliography and index.

Written by the archive’s cataloguers, not by the author.