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India's Ancient Past
Sinopsis
R.S. Sharma, one of the best-known historians of
early India, provides a comprehensive
yet accessible text on the ancient period of
Indian history. Beginning with topics such as
historiography and the importance of Ancient
Indian history, he goes on to cover the
geographical, econological and linguistic
settings, before looking at specific cultures of
neolithic, chalcolithic types, the Harappan
civilization, the Vedic period, the rise of
Jainism and Buddhism, Magadha and the beginning
of territorial states, the age of the Mauryas,
Satavahanas, Guptas, and Harshavardhana. While
taking the reader on this journey through time,
he highlights important phenomena such as the
beginning of urbanization and monarchy in India,
invasions, the Varna system, commerce and trade,
developments in philosophy and cultural
efflorescence. He ends this insightful volume
with a comments on the transition from the
Ancient to the Medieval. This book also addresses
a number of issues which have become current in
discussion on Ancient Inida today, such as the
Identity of the Aryan Culture, and Historical
Construction. This is a volume meant for all
those who want a masterly, lucid, yet eminently
readable introduction to and overview on India's
early history by one of the master-scholars of
Indian history - be it students, tourists, or the
interested lay reader
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R.S. Sharma, one of the best-known accessible
text on the ancient period
historians of early India, provides a
comprehensive yet of Indian history. Beginning
with topics such as
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historiography and the importance of Ancient
Indian history, he goes on to cover
the geographical, econological and linguistic
settings, before looking at specific cultures of
neolithic, chalcolithic types, the Harappan
civilization, the Vedic period, the rise of
Jainism and Buddhism, Magadha and the beginning
of territorial states, the age of the Mauryas,
Satavahanas, Guptas, and Harshavardhana. While
taking the reader on this journey through time,
he highlights important phenomena such as the
beginning of urbanization and monarchy in India,
invasions, the Varna system, commerce and trade,
developments in philosophy and cultural
efflorescence. He ends this insightful volume
with a comments on the transition from the
Ancient to the Medieval. This book also addresses
a number of issues which have become current in
discussion on Ancient Inida today, such as the
Identity of the Aryan Culture, and Historical
Construction. This is a volume meant for all
those who want a masterly, lucid, yet eminently
readable introduction to and overview on India's
early history by one of the master-scholars of
Indian history - be it students, tourists, or the
interested lay reader