Ralph Darnell

The aim of this series containing in three volumes is to explore the Indian students? library. It is to provide convenient editions of the best books written by English authors on India and on Indian subjects. It is hoped that the Indian students of the English language will find in these works an adequate representation of the life with which they are familiar. Most teachers of English in India will agree that one of their chief difficulties is the choice of suitable reading material for their pupils. At those stages of instruction that precede University study, and for sometime after Matriculation, the aim of the teacher must be linguistic rather than literary. For this reason it is expedient to direct the student to such books as deal with the history, the life, the religion and the customs of his native land. The author of these volumes draws solace from the text, which is quite scientific to address the anomalies in the cultural heritage of India.