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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0723.00017.] This article is a good account of Indian Mathematics of the modern style, of the late nineteenth century and of the twentieth. Many a good mathematician of this period find a place in it (those who marked for most of their productive lives outside India like S. Chandrasekhan and Harish-Chandra are left out; also Ramanujan has been left out --- for guidance reasons). The development has been brought forth in a historico- political perspective; the reasons for the Indian Mathematics of this period being what it was, have been analysed properly. However the number of important mathematicians that are left out is much more than what has been referred to (perhaps much beyond the estimate of the author); even in mentioning the centres of importance, many have been left out. Further, after 1950, it appears from the article that work of importance has been done only in the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research which is far from the truth. In this short review, details cannot be given. One feels that the article is very much incomplete and highly biassed. Still, being perhaps the only article of this type and for reasons mentioned in the first paragraph, it is worth reading.