The works selected for the series will include those published in the past and no longer easily accessible, as well as works produced in our own times. Radha Kumud Mookerji’s work in the field of ancient Indian history is widely known. There is no other work as influential as this study of the idea of India’s unity embedded in the classical Hindu texts and scriptures. As opposed to the colonial notion that British rule had united India, he argued that there was an inherent unity in Indian civilization as it took shape in ancient India.