This new edition of the atlas is published in two forms, one of the same size as the second edition, the other of a smaller size. The latter has been provided in compliance with a desire expressed from various quarters, and its obvious advantages hardly require further commendation.
Again some changes and additions have been made. The number of maps has been increased by three map 1 representing surface and vegetation features of India, map 2 giving the old Indian names of the chief rivers and ascertainable localities of some of the principal Aryan tribes, and map 17 showing "the Portuguese Provinces of the North". Maps 9, 10, 16, and 33 have been redrawn on larger scales and map 15 has been enlarged. Many of the corrections are due to the suggestion of kind friends, and I gratefully acknowledge my obligation to them.
The footnotes of the letter-press to the later maps have been left on the whole as they were written for the second edition, because handy books of reference on the History of India in the Middle Ages and in Modern Times of the kind of Mr. V.A. Smith's Early History of India still remain a desideratum.
Lastly, I have the pleasure of thanking the Secretary of State for India and the Clarendon Press for their courtesy in permitting the use of maps 4 and 5 of the Imperial Gazetteer atlas in the construction of map 1. The idea of combining the two features on one map is my own, but I owe much to the technical skill of the map-printers for the successful execution of the plan. The mass of information this map offers ought to make it particularly valuable to students of history who have both the will and the leisure to study the map with care.
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