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Author : Baldev Kumar
Publisher : New Delhi : Sterling Publishers
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015011274993
Author : Daniel Michon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317324577
This book explores the ways in which past cultures have been used to shape colonial and postcolonial cultural identities. It provides a theoretical framework to understand these processes, and offers illustrative case studies in which the agency of ancient peoples, rather than the desires of antiquarians and archaeologists, is brought to the fore.
Author : Salomon Richard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614291855
Discover the fascinating history of a long-hidden Buddhist culture at a historic crossroads. In the years following Alexander the Great’s conquest of the East, a series of empires rose up along the Silk Road. In what is now northern Pakistan, the civilizations in the region called Gandhara became increasingly important centers for the development of Buddhism, reaching their apex under King Kaniska of the Kusanas in the second century CE. Gandhara has long been known for its Greek-Indian synthesis in architecture and statuary, but until about twenty years ago, almost nothing was known about its literature. The insights provided by manuscripts unearthed over the last few decades show that Gandhara was indeed a vital link in the early development of Buddhism, instrumental in both the transmission of Buddhism to China and the rise of the Mahayana tradition. The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhara surveys what we know about Gandhara and its Buddhism, and it also provides translations of a dozen different short texts, from similes and stories to treatises on time and reality.
Author : Kameshwar Prasad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000007182201
Author : Publications Division
Publisher : Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788123022659
This volume of the Gazetteer of India was first published in 1965 and the public response has been very encouraging. Since then, major changes in the political map of India have taken place. The idea is to provide to the general public, especially the university students, low priced publications containing valuable, authentic and objective information on these subjects ( Physiography, People and Languages) by well-known experts in their respective fields.
Author : Asko Parpola
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190226923
"This pioneering study derives Hinduism from the traditions brought to South Asia by Aryan-speaking pastoralists from the Eurasian steppes and those of the Indus Civilization, reconstructed from its visual and inscriptional remains and from West Asian and classical/modern South Asian sources"--
Author : Muhammad Ashraf Wani,Aman Ashraf Wani
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000836554
This is the first full-length history of early Kashmir locating it beyond its regional context, from pre-history to the thirteenth century. Drawing on a variety of sources—including conventional archaeological and literary sources, as well as non-conventional sources like philology, toponym and surnames—it presents a connected history of early Kashmir over the longue duree. It challenges tendencies towards nationalist historiographies of the region by situating it in the context of the shared histories of humanity. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history, archaeology, anthropology and South Asian studies.
Author : Ellen Raven,Gerda Theuns-de Boer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789004473003
An extensive, illustrated bibliography for the Hindu god Śiva in the arts of South and Southeast Asia, offering detailed indices and easy access to resource repositories.
Author : Satyendra Nath Naskar
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 8170172985
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Author : Ram Sharan Sharma
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 8120808274
The present work Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient Indian discusses different views on the origin and nature of the state in ancient India. It also deals with stages and processes of state formation and examines the relevance of caste and kin-based collectivities to the construction of polity. The Vedic assemblies are studied in some detail, and developments in political organisation are presented in relation to their changing social and economic background. The book also shows how religion and rituals were brought in the service of the ruling class.
Author : Robert Daniel DeCaroli
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780295805795
This deft and lively study by Robert DeCaroli explores the questions of how and why the earliest verifiable images of the historical Buddha were created. In so doing, DeCaroli steps away from old questions of where and when to present the history of Buddhism�s relationship with figural art as an ongoing set of negotiations within the Buddhist community and in society at large. By comparing innovations in Brahmanical, Jain, and royal artistic practice, DeCaroli examines why no image of the Buddha was made until approximately five hundred years after his death and what changed in the centuries surrounding the start of the Common Era to suddenly make those images desirable and acceptable. The textual and archaeological sources reveal that figural likenesses held special importance in South Asia and were seen as having a significant amount of agency and power. Anxiety over image use extended well beyond the Buddhists, helping to explain why images of Vedic gods, Jain teachers, and political elites also are absent from the material record of the centuries BCE. DeCaroli shows how the emergence of powerful dynasties and rulers, who benefited from novel modes of visual authority, was at the root of the changes in attitude toward figural images. However, as DeCaroli demonstrates, a strain of unease with figural art persisted, even after a tradition of images of the Buddha had become established.
Author : Pamela H. Smith
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822986706
Trade flowed across Eurasia, around the Indian Ocean, and over the Mediterranean for millennia, but in the early modern period, larger parts of the globe became connected through these established trade routes. Knowledge, embodied in various people, materials, texts, objects, and practices, also moved and came together along these routes in hubs of exchange where different social and cultural groups intersected and interacted. Entangled Itineraries traces this movement of knowledge across the Eurasian continent from the early years of the Common Era to the nineteenth century, following local goods, techniques, tools, and writings as they traveled and transformed into new material and intellectual objects and ways of knowing. Focusing on nonlinear trajectories of knowledge in motion, this volume follows itineraries that weaved in and out of busy, crowded cosmopolitan cities in China; in the trade hubs of Kucha and Malacca; and in centers of Arabic scholarship, such as Reyy and Baghdad, which resonated in Bursa, Assam, and even as far as southern France. Contributors explore the many ways in which materials, practices, and knowledge systems were transformed and codified as they converged, swelled, at times disappeared, and often reemerged anew.
Author : Ranabir Chakravarti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000170122
Highlighting diverse types of market places and merchants, this book situates the commercial scenario of early India (up to c. ad 1300) in the overall agrarian material milieu of the subcontinent. The book questions the stereotypical narrative of early Indian trade as exchanges in small quantity, exotic, portable luxury items and strongly argues for the significance of trade in relatively inexpensive bulk commodities – including agrarian/floral products – at local and regional levels and also in long distance trade. That staple items had salience in the sea-borne trade of early India figures prominently in this book which points out that commercial exchanges touched the everyday life of a variety of people. A major feature of this work is the conspicuous thrust on and attention to the sea-borne commerce in the subcontinent. The history of Indic seafaring in the Indian Ocean finds a prominent place in this book pointing out the braided histories of overland and maritime networks in the subcontinent. In addition to three specific chapters on the maritime profile of early Bengal, the third edition of Trade and Traders in Early Indian Society offers two new chapters (14 and 15) on the commercial scenario of Gujarat, dealing respectively with an organization of merchants during the early sixth century ad and with the long-term linkages between money-circulation and overseas trade in Gujarat c. ad 500-1500). A new preface to the Third Edition discusses the emerging historiographical issues in the history of trade in early India. Rich in the interrogation of a wide variety of primary sources, the book analyses the changing perspectives on early Indian trade by taking into account the current literature on the subject.
Author : Iain Gardner,Jason D. Beduhn,Paul Dilley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004282629
In Mani at the Court of the Persian Kings the authors explore evidence arising from their project to edit the Chester Beatty Kephalaia codex. This new text presents Mani at the heart of Sasanian Iran in dialogue with its sages and nobles, acting as a cultural mediator between East and West and interpreter of Christian, Iranian, and Indian traditions. Nine chapters study Mani’s appropriation of the ‘law of Zarades’ and of Iranian epic; suggest a new understanding of his last days; and analyse his formative role in the history of late antique religions. These interdisciplinary studies advance research in several fields and will be of interest to scholars of Manichaeism, Sasanian Iran, and the development of religions in Late Antiquity.
Author : Manu V. Devadevan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108494571
This radical reinterpretation of Indian history traces the origins of India's institutions, ideas and identities to the 'early medieval' period.