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Mysore Gazetteer Compiled for Government Volume II Historical Part I, 1930
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1and each period has been treated under convenient sub-heads.
3No person who writes on the history of Mysore can do so without being indebted to Mr. B. L. Rice, C.I.E. or Mr. R. A. Narasimhachar, M.A., whose laborious research in the field of Archæology has won for them a more than Indian reputation. The present Volume owes much to their scholarly work. The learned and erudite Reports of the Southern and Western Circles of the Archæological Survey of the Government of India, have also been made full use of. The time has long since past when the history of the Chōla, Hoysala, Vijayanagar and other dynasties with which Mysore had much to do in the past, could be written from the inscriptions relating to them found only within the present limits of Mysore, Madras, or Bombay. But for the help derived from all these different sources, a great many points in the early history of Mysore, if not of the whole of India south of the Vindhyas, would remain for ever unsolved. An attempt has been made with the aid furnished by these materials to save research from becoming a mere mechanical registration of records. In treating of the more recent period, the records of Fort St. George, which have been made available by the enlightened generosity of the Government of Madras, have been largely laid under contribution. Indeed, it might be remarked, that almost every period of Mysore history has been re-written in the
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