The Rise Of Civilization In India And Pakistan

Author : Bridget Allchin,Raymond Allchin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1982-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 052128550X

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The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan by Bridget Allchin,Raymond Allchin Pdf

Many spectacular discoveries of archeaological significance have been made in the Indian subcontinent since the first appearance of Raymond and Bridget Allchin's book The Birth of Indian Civilization, for long the most authoritative and widely read text on its subject. Advances in related fields, particularly in geomorphology, palaeobotany and palaeoclimatology, have also radically altered our picture of the emergence of Indian civilisation. In The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan the authors have completely revised and rewritten their earlier work to present an integrated and dynamic account of human culture in South Asia. Drawing primarily upon the archaeological record, and supported by ethnographic, linguistic and historical evidence, the authors trace the origins and development of culture in India and Pakistan from its earliest roots in Palaeolithic times, through the rise and disintegration of the great Indus Civilization to the emergence of regional cultures, and the arrival and spread of Indo-Aryan speaking peoples. They conclude with the early Buddhist period and the appearance of city states right across Pakistan and North India, establishing the pattern of subcontinental unity and regional diversity that was to characterize the country henceforward. The authors have made every attempt to incorporate the results of the most recent research and their book is illustrated throughout with photographs, maps and line diagrams. Offering an original and stimulating perspective on the archaeology of the subcontinent, The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan will be invaluable to students of South Asian culture and early history. It will also appeal to anyone interested in historical geography, world prehistory and archaeology in general.

Author : Bridget Allchin,Frank Raymond Allchin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015017489033

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The Birth of Indian Civilization by Bridget Allchin,Frank Raymond Allchin Pdf

Author : Kerry Hinton
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781477789292

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The Decline of Ancient Indian Civilization by Kerry Hinton Pdf

How do civilizations rise and, ultimately, fall? U.S. students can have a difficult time understanding that empires come and go throughout the course of history. This volume explains how a once-flourishing civilization ran into decline, once foreign invaders took over the weakened government and spread their influence. Students will learn how India evolved into the country it is today. With engaging text, rich and colorful illustrations, and an enhanced e-book option, this title is a valuable resource for students researching reports.

Author : Dilip K. Chakrabarty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199088140

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India: An Archaeological History by Dilip K. Chakrabarty Pdf

This book charts the flow of India's grass-roots archaeological history in all its continuities and diversities from its Palaeolithic beginnings to AD 300. The second edition includes a new afterword which discusses all new ideas and discoveries in Indian archaeology in the past one decade.

Author : Gregory L. Possehl
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759116429

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The Indus Civilization by Gregory L. Possehl Pdf

The Indus Civilization of India and Pakistan was contemporary with, and equally complex as the better-known cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt and China. The dean of North American Indus scholars, Gregory Possehl, attempts here to marshal the state of knowledge about this fascinating culture in a readable synthesis. He traces the rise and fall of this civilization, examines the economic, architectural, artistic, religious, and intellectual components of this culture, describes its most famous sites, and shows the relationships between the Indus Civilization and the other cultures of its time. As a sourcebook for scholars, a textbook for archaeology students, and an informative volume for the lay reader, The Indus Civilization will be an exciting and informative read.

Author : Sheikh Mohamad Ikram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : India
ISBN : LCCN:78930076

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History of Muslim Civilization in India and Pakistan by Sheikh Mohamad Ikram Pdf

Author : D D Kosambi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000653472

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The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in HIstorical Outline by D D Kosambi Pdf

First published in 1965, The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline is a strikingly original work, the first real cultural history of India. The main features of the Indian character are traced back into remote antiquity as the natural outgrowth of historical process. Did the change from food gathering and the pastoral life to agriculture make new religions necessary? Why did the Indian cities vanish with hardly a trace and leave no memory? Who were the Aryans – if any? Why should Buddhism, Jainism, and so many other sects of the same type come into being at one time and in the same region? How could Buddhism spread over so large a part of Asia while dying out completely in the land of its origin? What caused the rise and collapse of the Magadhan empire; was the Gupta empire fundamentally different from its great predecessor, or just one more ‘oriental despotism’? These are some of the many questions handled with great insight, yet in the simplest terms, in this stimulating work. This book will be of interest to students of history, sociology, archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies, South Asian studies and ethnic studies.

Author : K. N. Chaudhuri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1985-03-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521285429

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Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean by K. N. Chaudhuri Pdf

Before the age of Industrial Revolution, the great Asian civilisations constituted areas not only of high culture but also of advanced economic development.

Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015015204509

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica by Hugh Chisholm Pdf

Author : Rachel Fell McDermott,Leonard A. Gordon,Ainslie T. Embree,Frances W. Pritchett,Dennis Dalton
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 1025 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231510929

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Sources of Indian Traditions by Rachel Fell McDermott,Leonard A. Gordon,Ainslie T. Embree,Frances W. Pritchett,Dennis Dalton Pdf

For more than fifty years, students and teachers have made the two-volume resource Sources of Indian Traditions their top pick for an accessible yet thorough introduction to Indian and South Asian civilizations. Volume 2 contains an essential selection of primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious history of India from the decline of Mughal rule in the eighteenth century to today. It details the advent of the East India Company, British colonization, the struggle for liberation, the partition of 1947, and the creation of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and contemporary India. This third edition now begins earlier than the first and second, featuring a new chapter on eighteenth-century intellectual and religious trends that set the stage for India's modern development. The editors have added material on Gandhi and his reception both nationally and abroad and include different perspectives on and approaches to Partition and its aftermath. They expand their portrait of post-1947 India and Pakistan and add perspectives on Bangladesh. The collection continues to be divided thematically, with a section devoted to the drafting of the Indian constitution, the rise of nationalism, the influence of Western thought, the conflict in Kashmir, nuclear proliferation, minority religions, secularism, and the role of the Indian political left. A phenomenal text, Sources of Indian Traditions is more indispensable than ever for courses in philosophy, religion, literature, and intellectual and cultural history.

Author : Shereen Ratnagar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Indus civilization
ISBN : 938238166X

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Understanding Harappa by Shereen Ratnagar Pdf

This slim volume is an attempt to rouse the interest of students and non-specialists in the early civilization of the Indus valley and adjoining regions of Pakistan and India. The challenges of archaeological interpretation are discussed, together with maps, site plans and illustrations of artefacts, but the evidence is presented in social terms rather than in a technical way. In an attempt to cast an overall perspective, the Indus civilization is presented in the context of contemporary cultural development in South Asia as well as Western and Central Asia. The third edition of this volume included references to new ideas on the Indus civilization and to excavations at a small but significant site. This revised and updated fourth edition contains additional material on Dholavira and the harnessing of flash-floods.

Author : Michael H. Fisher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107111622

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An Environmental History of India by Michael H. Fisher Pdf

This longue durée survey of the Indian subcontinent's environmental history reveals the complex interactions among its people and the natural world.

Author : Susan L. Huntington,John C. Huntington
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788120836174

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The Art of Ancient India by Susan L. Huntington,John C. Huntington Pdf

To scholars in the field, the need for an up-to-date overview of the art of South Asia has been apparent for decades. Although many regional and dynastic genres of Indic art are fairly well understood, the broad, overall representation of India's centuries of splendor has been lacking. The Art of Ancient India is the result of the author's aim to provide such a synthesis. Noted expert Sherman E. Lee has commented: –Not since Coomaraswamyês History of Indian and Indonesian Art (1927) has there been a survey of such completeness.” Indeed, this work restudies and reevaluates every frontier of ancient Indic art _ from its prehistoric roots up to the period of Muslim rule, from the Himalayan north to the tropical south, and from the earliest extant writing through the most modern scholarship on the subject. This dynamic survey-generously complemented with 775 illustrations, including 48 in full color and numerous architectural ground plans, and detailed maps and fine drawings, and further enhanced by its guide to Sanskrit, copious notes, extensive bibliography, and glossary of South Asian art terms-is the most comprehensive and most fully illustrated study of South Asian art available. The works and monuments included in this volume have been selected not only for their artistic merit but also in order to both provide general coverage and include transitional works that furnish the key to an all encompassing view of the art. An outstanding portrayal of ancient Indiaês highest intellectual and technical achievements, this volume is written for many audiences: scholars, for whom it provides an up-to-date background against which to examine their own areas of study; teachers and students of college level, for whom it supplies a complete summary of and a resource for their own deeper investigations into Indic art; and curious readers, for whom it gives a broad-based introduction to this fascinating area of world art.

Author : Singh
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8131717534

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The Pearson Indian History Manual for the UPSC Civil Services Preliminary Examination by Singh Pdf

Author : Dilip Kumar Ganguly
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 8170173043

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Ancient India, History and Archaeology by Dilip Kumar Ganguly Pdf

Not Withstanding The Remarkable Progress In The Realm Of Historical Enquiry In Our Country, Ancient India Still Remains A Mysterious Domain Where The Extant Source-Materials Have Proved To Be Inadequate And Dubious. This Explains Why So Many Topics Of Ancient Indian History And Culture Have Raged Unending Controversies Among The Historians. The Present Work Mostly Revolves Around A Few Such Controversial Issues, Which Have Been Objectively Studied Afresh In The Light Of The Available Data, Literary And Archaeological.The Book Comprises Eight Chapters: `The Imperial Mauryas: Some Problems , The Pala Kings Of Bengal And Bihar ,`Side-Lights Of The Religious Life Of Ancient Orissa , `The Satamana Metallic Currency , `Some Disquieting Features Of Indian Archaeology , `Different Categories Of The Brahmin Donees , `Historical Researches In West Bengal And `Professor Dines Chandra Sircar .