The Classical Age (Volume 3)

"... It maintains the leading trait of the series viz. to devote more attention to the social and cultural aspects of the story than to the purely political side, and the narrative of dynamic struggles and wars... . The political history is generally complete and up-to-date and a great amount of authentic information on social and economic history has been culled and presented systematically for the first time..."

K.A. Nilakanta Sastri in Journal of Indian History