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Mysore Gazetteer Compiled for Government Volume II Historical Part I, 1930
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1PREFACE
3THIS Volume, forming Volume II of the Mysore Gazetteer, deals in a comprehensive manner with the History of Mysore. A two-fold plan has been adopted in the treatment of this subject. In view of the progress of archaeological research in the State during the past forty years, occasion has been taken to deal in an adequate fashion with the sources from which the materials for the reconstruction of its ancient history are derived. The information scattered in the Journals of the learned Societies and Reports on Arcnæology, has been carefully sifted and collected under appropriate heads. Among these are Epigraphy, Numismatics, Sculpture and Painting, Architecture, etc. The evidence available from these different sources has been brought together to show not merely their utility in elucidating the history of Mysore during its earliest times, for which written records are not available, but also to trace, as far as may be, with their aid, periods of history which would otherwise be wholly a blank. In dealing with that part of the history of Mysore for which written records are to any extent available, a more familiar plan has been adopted. It has been divided into periods
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