AUTHOR'S PREFACE
Love for one's own country and institu- tions is a virtue highly essential in all its citizens for its prosperity and well-being. Every attempt should be made therefore to cherish and cultivate this virtue by one and all. The study of the history of one's own country in general, and one's own district in parti- cular, should perforce bring about the desired result in this direction. Here we may refer to the statement in the Report of the fifteenth Provincial Educational Conference of 1923.
'It is one of the fundamental principles of peda- gogy that the History and Geography to be taught to the young should start with and be based on the study of the History and Geography of the dis- trict or region in which the pupil lives and be correlated to his actual daily experience.'
It is the study of the History of our ancient times and ancient rulers that should rouse in our youths a feeling of reverence and esteem for our ancient rulers and their works and institutions.
Our youths, nay our countrymen and countrywomen too, seem to be under the im- pression that our land, unlike others, cannot boast of a history from the records of our rulers and historians. This is perhaps due to the fact that books on the history of our land put into their hands are those containing materials culled by foreigners. Here we may point out the fact that in our country histori- cal facts and events of ancient days and
