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TL;DR: In this paper, the author deals with the economic significance in ancient India of land, industry, and commerce, and his book has importance in classical studies because he puts the commerce between the Greeks and Romans on the one side and India on the other into the general picture of ancient Indian economics.
Abstract: THE author deals with the economic significance in ancient India of land, industry, and commerce. The book has importance in classical studies because he puts the commerce between the Greeks and Romans on the one side and India on the other into the general picture of ancient Indian economics, and is up to date with the latest discoveries. On Indian sources he is good, and there are useful hints here and there for classical scholars. He has used a very sound unpublished edition of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea by J. Whiteley. Whereas Adhya's narrative is usually easy to read and mostly free from factual errors, it is unfortunate that his work as a whole was not fully revised and the proofs not carefully read before publication, because the footnotes and the bibliography are marred by many misprints and other errors which seem to indicate unfamiliarity with European languages. The mistakes in references to French and German works are specially noticeable; and the pity is that parts of the bibliography are unnecessary, being relics of the submission by Adhya of his research as a thesis for a higher degree. There are misprints in the narrative also. He appears to use translations, instead of the originals, of some of the Greek and Roman sources. That does not matter much in itself; but in this connection it is sad to see that lively translator Rackham appear as Rockhem. Sometimes Adhya expresses himself as a classical scholar would not. Two examples: on page 127 he speaks about an 'Egyptian inscription' whereas it is a bilingual Greek and Latin one found in Egypt; again, on page 7, however true what he says about Strabo and the Elder Pliny, it is not right to equate them as he does by involuntary implication. The index is perfunctory and inadequate; the book deserves a completer one.