The Idea Of Ancient India

Author : Upinder Singh
Publisher : Sage Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 484 pages
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Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9353288479

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The Idea of Ancient India by Upinder Singh Pdf

A major contribution towards the different perspectives and issues central to understanding ancient India This book engages with some of the most important issues, debates, and methodologies in the writing of ancient Indian history. Thematically structured, the first section discusses religious and regional processes through a meticulous analysis of inscriptions and material remains. The second--based extensively on archival sources--connects ancient and modern India through a discussion of the beginnings of Indian archaeology and the discovery, interpretation, and reinvention of ancient sites in colonial and post-colonial times. The third underlines the importance of reconstructing the intellectual landscape of ancient India through a sensitive, yet, critical historicization of political ideas in texts and inscriptions. The final section makes a strong case for situating ancient India within a broader, Asian, frame.

Author : Upinder Singh
Publisher : Vintage Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0143461532

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The Idea of Ancient India by Upinder Singh Pdf

How can the complexities of ancient India be comprehended? This book draws on a vast array of texts, inscriptions, archaeology, archival sources and art to delve into themes such as the history of regions and religions, archaeologists and the modern histories of ancient sites, the interface between political ideas and practice, violence and resistance, and the interactions between the Indian subcontinent and the wider world. It highlights recent approaches and challenges in reconstructing South Asia's early history, and in doing so, brings out the exciting complexities of ancient India. Authoritative and incisive, this revised Penguin edition-with two new chapters-is essential reading for students and scholars of ancient Indian history and for all those interested in India's past.

Author : Upinder Singh
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674981287

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Political Violence in Ancient India by Upinder Singh Pdf

Gandhi and Nehru helped create a myth of nonviolence in ancient India that obscures a troubled, complex heritage: a long struggle to reconcile the ethics of nonviolence with the need to use violence to rule. Upinder Singh documents the tension between violence and nonviolence in ancient Indian political thought and practice, 600 BCE to 600 CE.

Author : Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Buddha (The concept)
ISBN : UOM:39015058496582

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Ancient India by Hermann Oldenberg Pdf

Author : Upinder Singh
Publisher : Aleph
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : India
ISBN : 9390652618

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Ancient India by Upinder Singh Pdf

In Ancient India: Culture of Contradictions, one of India's most distinguished historians takes readers on an exhilarating voyage of discovery into the distant past. Upinder Singh urges us to abandon simplistic stereotypes and instead think of ancient India in terms of the coexistence of five powerful contradictions-between social inequality and promises of universal salvation, the valorization of desire and detachment, goddess worship and misogyny, violence and non-violence, and religious debate and conflict. She does so using a vast array of sources including religious and philosophical texts, epics, poetry, plays, technical treatises, satire, biographies, and inscriptions, as well as the material and aesthetic evidence of archaeology and art from sites across the subcontinent. Singh's scholarly but highly accessible style, clear explanation, and balanced interpretations offer an understanding of the historian's craft and unravel the many threads of what we think of as ancient Indian culture. This is not a dead or forgotten past but one invoked in different contexts even today. Further, in spite of enormous historical changes over the centuries, the contradictions discussed here still remain. Beautifully written, deeply original, and profusely illustrated with masterpieces of ancient, medieval, and modern art, the book brings to life the rich complexity of ancient India and its connections with the present in a vivid and compelling manner.

Author : Richard Seaford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108499552

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The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and India by Richard Seaford Pdf

Explains for the first time the genesis and early form of both Indian and Greek philosophy, and their striking similarities.

Author : Raj Kumar
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : India
ISBN : 8171416829

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Essays on Ancient India by Raj Kumar Pdf

Contents: Introduction, The Geographical Background, How Nehru Discovered Ancient India-I, How Nehru Discovered Ancient India-II, The Economic History of Ancient India, Trade and Commerce in Ancient India, Town- Planning and House-Building in Ancient According to Silpasastras, Art and Architecture, Ancient House-Planning, Naming A Child or A Person, Mantra, Yantra and Tantra.

Author : Nayanjot Lahiri
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674915251

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Ashoka in Ancient India by Nayanjot Lahiri Pdf

In the third century BCE, Ashoka ruled an empire encompassing much of modern-day India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. During his reign, Buddhism proliferated across the South Asian subcontinent, and future generations of Asians came to see him as the ideal Buddhist king. Disentangling the threads of Ashoka’s life from the knot of legend that surrounds it, Nayanjot Lahiri presents a vivid biography of this extraordinary Indian emperor and deepens our understanding of a legacy that extends beyond the bounds of Ashoka’s lifetime and dominion. At the center of Lahiri’s account is the complex personality of the Maurya dynasty’s third emperor—a strikingly contemplative monarch, at once ambitious and humane, who introduced a unique style of benevolent governance. Ashoka’s edicts, carved into rock faces and stone pillars, reveal an eloquent ruler who, unusually for the time, wished to communicate directly with his people. The voice he projected was personal, speaking candidly about the watershed events in his life and expressing his regrets as well as his wishes to his subjects. Ashoka’s humanity is conveyed most powerfully in his tale of the Battle of Kalinga. Against all conventions of statecraft, he depicts his victory as a tragedy rather than a triumph—a shattering experience that led him to embrace the Buddha’s teachings. Ashoka in Ancient India breathes new life into a towering figure of the ancient world, one who, in the words of Jawaharlal Nehru, “was greater than any king or emperor.”

Author : Suresh Chandra Ghosh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015051588310

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The History of Education in Ancient India, C. 3000 BC to AD 1192 by Suresh Chandra Ghosh Pdf

Description: In Ancient India education was religion and religion as education. However, we have very little idea till now about how our education system in Ancient India had emerged out of our religious scriptures, how it had changed in response to the changing conditions in our past society and how it had contributed to the development of a prosperous and glosrious civilisation which has now become our proud heritage. Based on a critical study of our religious scriptures, Vedic, Buddhist and Jaina, as available in English, German and French translations, this book attempts to delineate these developments. Written largely for a non-specialist audience in India and abroad, this book will be useful not only for the students of history but also for those interested in our Ancient Indian history and culture.

Author : Upinder Singh,Nayanjot Lahiri
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : India
ISBN : 0198060289

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Ancient India by Upinder Singh,Nayanjot Lahiri Pdf

Revised version of papers presented at the Workshop on Ancient Indian History, held at New Delhi during 27-28 August 2005.

Author : Kapur,Kamlesh
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : India
ISBN : 8120749103

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History Of Ancient India (portraits Of A Nation), 1/e by Kapur,Kamlesh Pdf

Author : Dilip K. Chakrabarti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015041315881

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Colonial Indology by Dilip K. Chakrabarti Pdf

Description: This book explores some underlying theoretical premises of the Western study of ancient India. These premises developed in response to the colonial need to manipulate the Indians' perception of their past. The need was felt most strongly from the middle of the nineteenth century onwards, and an elaborate racist framework, in which the interrelationship between race, language and culture was a key element, slowly emerged as an explanation of the ancient Indian historical universe. The measure of its success is obvious from the fact that the Indian nationalist historians left this framework unchallenged, preferring to dispute it only in some comparatively minor matters of detail. This book argues that this framework is still in place, and implicitly accepted not merely by Western Indologists but also by their Indian counterparts. The image of the ancient Indian past remains the same. The persistence of the old image is reflective of India's relationship as a part of the Third World with the West and Western historical scholarship. This book has a further argument. Mere dismantling of the current racist structure of our perception of ancient India and all that implies will not lead by itself to an Indian perception of the ancient Indian past. Besides, any alternative sense of this past should be something in which all Indians, irrespective of their individual affiliations, can feel having a share. Among other things, the book underlines the total inadequacy of ancient Indian texts to offer fine resolution historical images in chronological and geographical order, and argues that this goal is unlikely to be achieved by combining our historical texts with some social science theories. This can be achieved only through detailed grassroots investigations of the ancient history of the land and its interrelations with human beings. The academic context of the book lies in an increasingly expanding area of archaeological studies of the sociopolitics of the past. This is the first major exercise in this direction in the context of India.

Author : Upinder Singh
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 677 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 9788131716779

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A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India by Upinder Singh Pdf

A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India is the most comprehensive textbook yet for undergraduate and postgraduate students. It introduces students to original sources such as ancient texts, artefacts, inscriptions and coins, illustrating how historians construct history on their basis. Its clear and balanced explanation of concepts and historical debates enables students to independently evaluate evidence, arguments and theories. This remarkable textbook allows the reader to visualize and understand the rich and varied remains of India s ancient past, transforming the process of discovering that past into an exciting experience.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:913201387

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Men and Thought in Ancient India by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ram Sharan Sharma
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 8120808274

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Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India by Ram Sharan Sharma Pdf

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.