BEGINNINGS OF SOUTH INDIAN HISTORY

The following pages contain the substance of the course of Special Lectures delivered before the University of Madras in January and February of this year. I have also included in this course by way of introduction two lectures; the first of these was intended to be the inaugural lecture for the University and those second delivered on a previous occasion both of them bearing directly on the subject of this course. In one or two cases the lecture as delivered was revised to give it the necessary expansion to make it fuller. Otherwise the volume contains no more than the special courses of lectures. The sources of matter for those lectures have often been exploited by fits and starts for various purposes on occasions by different writers.