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Started in 1872 Indian Antiquary completed more than the traditional sixty-year cycle of the Indian calender in fact sixty-two issues were brought out when unfortunately it had to be discontinued.
Burgess carried the burden of editing Indian Antiquary for the first thirteen volumes till 1884. From 1885 onwards it was edited jointly and severally by J.F. Fleet and R.C. Temple, Bhandarkar and Krishanaswami Aiyangar, S.M. Edwards, Bhandarkar Ainger etc. Finally towards the end, after Temple the responsibility felt on E.A.W. Oldham, Bhandarkar and Aiynagar till its end.
It is now more than a century since the first volume was published and more than half a century since its last issue. Yet the articles and notices, these several volumes of Indian Antiquary carry are ever fresh and are of utmost importance to any researcher in Indology, History, Epigraphy, and Archaeology as an invaluable work of reference. It is also a sad state that most of the Indian libraries do not possess a complete set and even where they are available, the volumes have become fragile and brittle and cannot be used without causing irrepairable demage. It was to alleviate the distressed indologists and to aid them that the present venture has been taken to reprint all the volumes of Indian Antiquary in a phased manner.
Rs. 400 (Each Vol.)
