Charitralo em jarigindi (What Happened in History), Gordon Childe, translator Vallompati Venkatasubbaiah \nA milestone introductory survey of the rise of civilization and the birth of human culture, it explains the transition of the human species from barbarism to civilization, and growth out of an economy based on self sufficiency into one in which the beginning of specialization, division of labour, trade and a money economy was possible. \nGordon Childe (1892-1957) was an Australian archaeologist and philologist who specialised in the study of European prehistory. He accepted the socio-economic theory of Marxism and worked for most of his life as an academic in the United Kingdom. He also wrote a number of groundbreaking books on the subject of archaeology and prehistory, most notably Man Makes Himself (1936) and What Happened in History (1942). \nTranslator Vallompati Venkatasubbaiah (1937-2007) was born and raised in Chittoor district and taught at BT College, Madananapalle. One of the foremost literary critics, he was a Kendra Sahitya Akademy awardee.