K. P. Jayaswal, Date of Birth, Date of Death

K. P. Jayaswal

Indian historian

Date of Birth: 27-Nov-1881

Date of Death: 04-Aug-1937

Profession: historian

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Kashi Prasad Jayaswal (27 November 1881 – 4 August 1937) was an Indian historian and lawyer.
One of the intellectual forces behind the Indian nationalist movement, Jayaswal's works Hindu Polity (1918) and History of India, 150 A.D.
to 350 A.D.
(1933) are classics of ancient Indian historical literature.
Among other things, he is credited with showing that Indian republics, based on the principles of representation and collective decision-making, were among the oldest and most powerful of the ancient world.