Vidya Dhar Mahajan (1913 — 10 July 1990) was an Indian historian, political scientist, and advocate.
[9] Sucheta and Mridula have been professors of history at the Jawaharlal Nehru University's Centre for Historical Studies.
Assessing his work, Vidya Dhar Chaturvedi stated that he treated the subject matter in a "logical and lucid" manner.
Bhandari, while noting the Joseph Gabriel Starke dismissed the Law of War "in a few pages", opined that Mahajan did "full justice to it".
Assessing the book,[note 1] P. M. Bakshi (then-member of the Law Commission of India) stated that Mahajan did not organize the work on a number of clauses under enough headings and sub-headings.
The Law Commission of India suggested that the book would have been better titled as "Interpretation of Statute or some similar expression".
Mahajan suggested that Fraser did a "good survey" of the history of Germany from 1918 to 1939 but presented the Armistice of 11 November 1918, the defence of settlements from Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920) by the Allies, the factors responsible for Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933, the preparation for war by the Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939, and the circumstances which lead to Hitler's declaration of war against Britain in 1939 in "a lucid style".