Excerpt from Geology of India: For Students
As a lecturer in Geology to students preparing for the Punjab University Examinations I have constantly experienced great difficulty in the teaching of the Geology of India, because of the absence of any adequate modern book on the subject. The only work that exists is the one published by the Geological Survey of India in 1887, by H. B. Medlicott and W. T. Blanford, revised and largely rewritten by R. D. Oldham in 1893 - a quarter of a century ago. Although an excellent official record of the progress of the Survey up to that time, this publication has naturally become largely out of date (now also out of print) and is, besides, in its voluminous size and method of treatment, not altogether suitable as a manual for students preparing for the University Examinations. Students, as well as all other inquirers, have, therefore, been forced to search for and collect information, piecemeal, from the multitudinous Records and Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. These, however, are too numerous for the diligence of the average student - often, also, they are inaccessible to him - and thus much valuable scientific information contained in these admirable publications was, for the most part, unassimilated by the student class and remained locked up in the shelves of a few Libraries in the country. It would not be too much to say that this lack of a handy volume is in the main responsible for the almost total neglect of the Geology of India as a subject of study in the colleges of India and as one of independent scientific inquiry.
The object of the present volume is to remedy this deficiency by providing a manual in the form of a modern textbook, which summarises all the main facts of the subject within a moderate compass.
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