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Author : A. L. Basham
Publisher : Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1597400084
Author : Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi,A.L. Basham
Publisher : Picador
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02
Category : India
ISBN : 0330439103
A Classic.
Author : A. L. Basham
Publisher : Picador
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : India
ISBN : UVA:X004919534
About the Book A.L. Basham's The wounder that was Indian is a brilliant early history of one of the oldest civilisations. When it was first published in the united kingdom in 1954, it became an instant hit, as it would in United States a few years later. Since that it has consistently found an avid readership all over the world. The wounder that was India is a classic that anybody with an interest in the civilisational beginnings of India must read. It is a work of uncompromising scholarship and a labour of love.
Author : A. L. Basham
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789395624329
A. L. Basham’s The Wonder That Was India is a brilliant early history of one of the world’s oldest civilisations. When it was first published in the United Kingdom in 1954, it became an instant hit, as it would in the United States a few years later. Since then, it has consistently found an avid readership all over the world, been translated in many languages, and has educated and entertained generations of general readers and serious students of Indian history alike. The foreword, by Thomas R. Trautmann, brings alive the man and the academic behind this volume and illuminates the historical influences upon it. The Wonder That Was India is a classic that anybody with an interest in the civilisational beginnings of India must read. It is a work of uncompromising scholarship and a labour of love.
Author : Romila Thapar
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 897 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141937427
This new book represents a complete rewriting of Romila Thapar's hugely successful HISTORY OF INDIA - VOLUME ONE, thirty-four years after it was first published. Incorporating the vast changes in knowledge developed during her lifetime, Thapar tells the extraordinary story of this great civilisation - a civilisation always based on diverse, often warring sources and that left the astounding buildings and beliefs that still fill India. This book is the authoritative history told with style andmeticulous attention to detail by the world's leading authority.
Author : Arthur Llewellyn Basham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : India
ISBN : 0195615204
This book, edited by the well-known historian A. L. Basham, presents a comprehensive survey of Indian culture, covering such aspects as religion, philosophy, social organization, literature, art. architecture, music and science. It includes a special section dealing with the influence ofIndian civilization on the rest of the world, as well as details of the political history of the region to provide a chronological framework for the non-specialist. Contributors include such eminent scholars as Radhakrishnan, Burrow, Das, and Spear.
Author : Sampad,Sampadananda Mishra,Vijay
Publisher : Mapin Publishing Pvt
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Sanskrit language
ISBN : 1890206504
"This book reveals the many wonders of Sanskrit as a living experience and has something for all." -- p.2 of cover.
Author : Arthur Llewellyn Basham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 019569192X
In A Cultural History of India, first published in 1975, A.L. Basham brought together scholars from across the globe to provide international viewpoints on the rich cultural heritage of India. With contributors from across the world covering a wide array of topics including religion, philosophy, social organization, literature, art, architecture, music, and science, the book presented a comprehensive survey of India's rich cultural heritage. Over the years the book became a classic in its own right. The Illustrated Cultural History of India, an adapted and illustrated version of the original book, aims to sensitize young readers to the country's historic past and rich cultural heritage, and the need to preserve it. Key chapters cover the Indus civilization, Ashokan India and the Gupta Age, ancient Indian religions, philosophy, classical literature, early art and architecture, music, Muslim architecture in India, Islam, Sikhism, the nationalist movement, and modern Indian literature, and are complemented by extensive visuals, making for an informative and interesting read.
Author : Ramachandra Guha
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781509883288
Ramachandra Guha’s India after Gandhi is a magisterial account of the pains, struggles, humiliations and glories of the world’s largest and least likely democracy. A riveting chronicle of the often brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation, and of the extraordinary individuals and institutions who held it together, it established itself as a classic when it was first published in 2007. In the last decade, India has witnessed, among other things, two general elections; the fall of the Congress and the rise of Narendra Modi; a major anti-corruption movement; more violence against women, Dalits, and religious minorities; a wave of prosperity for some but the persistence of poverty for others; comparative peace in Nagaland but greater discontent in Kashmir than ever before. This tenth anniversary edition, updated and expanded, brings the narrative up to the present. Published to coincide with seventy years of the country’s independence, this definitive history of modern India is the work of one of the world’s finest scholars at the height of his powers.
Author : Pankaj Mishra
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781429933636
An End to Suffering is a deeply original and provocative book about the Buddha's life and his influence throughout history, told in the form of the author's search to understand the Buddha's relevance in a world where class oppression and religious violence are rife, and where poverty and terrorism cast a long, constant shadow. Mishra describes his restless journeys into India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, among Islamists and the emerging Hindu middle class, looking for this most enigmatic of religious figures, exploring the myths and places of the Buddha's life, and discussing Western explorers' "discovery" of Buddhism in the nineteenth century. He also considers the impact of Buddhist ideas on such modern politicians as Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. As he reflects on his travels and on his own past, Mishra shows how the Buddha wrestled with problems of personal identity, alienation, and suffering in his own, no less bewildering, times. In the process Mishra discovers the living meaning of the Buddha's teaching, in the world and for himself. The result is the most three-dimensional, convincing book on the Buddha that we have.
Author : John Guy,Jorrit Britschgi
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Painters
ISBN : 9781588394309
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 28, 2011-Jan. 8, 2012.
Author : S. A. A. Rizvi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:894659576
Author : D. Thussu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137027894
In recent years, India has emerged as a major economic and political power. Yet, the country's cultural influence outside India has not been adequately analyzed in academic discourses. This book, a pioneering attempt, from an international communication/media perspective, is aimed to fill the existing gap in scholarship in this area.
Author : R. C. Majumdar
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788120804357
This is a comprehensive, intelligible and interesting portrait of Ancient Indian History and Civilization from a national historical point of view. The work is divided into three broad divisions of the natural course of cultural development in Ancient India: (1) From the prehistoric age to 600 B.C., (2) From 600 B.C. to 300 A.D., (3) From 300 A.D. to 1200 A.D. The work describes the political, economic, religious and cultural conditions of the country, the expansionist activities, the colonisation schemes of her rulers in the Far East. Political theories and administrative organizations are also discussed but more stress has been laid on the religious, literary and cultural aspects of Ancient India. The book is of a more advanced type. It would meet the needs not only of general readers but also of earnest students who require a thorough grasp of the essential facts and features before taking up specialized study in any branch of the subject. It would also fulfil the requirements of the candidates for competitive examinations in which Ancient Indian History and culture is a prescribed subject.
Author : Namit Arora
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789353052874
What do we really know about the Aryan migration theory and why is that debate so hot? Why did the people of Khajuraho carve erotic scenes on their temple walls? What did the monks at Nalanda eat for dinner? Did our ideals of beauty ever prefer dark skin? Indian civilization is an idea, a reality, an enigma. In this riveting book, Namit Arora takes us on an unforgettable journey through 5000 years of history, reimagining in rich detail the social and cultural moorings of Indians through the ages. Drawing on credible sources, he discovers what inspired and shaped them: their political upheavals and rivalries, customs and vocations, and a variety of unusual festivals. Arora makes a stop at six iconic places -- the Harappan city of Dholavira, the Ikshvaku capital at Nagarjunakonda, the Buddhist centre of learning at Nalanda, enigmatic Khajuraho, Vijayanagar at Hampi, and historic Varanasi -- enlivening the narrative with vivid descriptions, local stories and evocative photographs. Punctuating this are chronicles of famous travellers who visited India -- including Megasthenes, Xuanzang, Alberuni and Marco Polo -- whose dramatic and idiosyncratic tales conceal surprising insights about our land. In lucid, elegant prose, Arora explores the exciting churn of ideas, beliefs and values of our ancestors through millennia -- some continue to shape modern India, while others have been lost forever. An original, deeply engaging and extensively researched work, Indians illuminates a range of histories coursing through our veins.