B.A. Saletore's masterpiece "Ancient Indian Political Thought and Institutions," remains a classic in the field. It has sadly been cast into oblivion.
B.A. Saletore belongs to that rarefied class of Indian history scholars who severed the slavish practice of looking at Indian history through European eyes.
B.A. Saletore worked in an era where British colonial oppression extended to archeology and history research in India.
The first episode of a series profiling the life and legacy of Bhasker Anand Saletore, the extraordinary scholar of history who lived from 1900-63.