K. P. Jayaswal

thumb|Jayaswal on a 1981 stamp of India Kashi Prasad Jayaswal (27 November 1881 – 4 August 1937) was an Indian historian and lawyer. Jayaswal's works Hindu Polity (1918) and History of India, 150 A.D. to 350 A.D. (1933) are classics of ancient Indian historical literature. Among other things, he is credited with showing that Indian republics, based on principles of representation and collective decision-making, were among the most democratic polities of the ancient world. Quotes The Vikramkhol inscription supplies a link [in] the passage of letter-forms from the Mohenjodaro script to Brahmi. Jayaswal, K.P., ‘The Vikramkhol Inscription’, The Indian Antiquary, 1933, vol. LXII, p. 60. in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India. Quotes about Historians like Sarkar, Dr Romesh Chandra Majumdar, Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade, Raghubir Singh, Hemchandra Raychaudhuri, Kashi Prasad Jayaswal, Devadatta Ramakrishna Bhandarkar, Govind Sakharam Sardesai and several contemporaries of theirs, many of whom shone in brilliance even under colonial rule, are in my view exemplars of what fact-based, dispassionate historians are. Vikram Sampath, interview at: External links Category:1881 births Category:1937 deaths Category:Historians from India