Ancient India / by R. C. Majumdar

Includes bibliography and index.

BOOK I. FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO 600 B.C.: The prehistoric age - early man and his implements -- The prehistoric age - race and culture -- The Sindhu (Indus) valley civilization -- The Aryans -- The Vedas -- Early Aryan society -- Later Vedic period: political history -- Later Vedic period: political theory and administrative system -- Later Vedic period: social and religious condition -- BOOK II. FROM c.600 B.C TO c.300 A.D.: Political history from the sixth to the fourth century B.C. -- The Maurya Empire -- From the end of the first to the beginning of the second Magadha Empire (second century B.C. to fourth century A.D.) -- Political theory and administrative organisation -- New religious movements -- Literature -- The epics and the Hindu society -- Colonisation and economic condition -- Art -- BOOK III. FROM c.300 A.D. TO c.1200 A.D.: The Gupta Empire -- North India from c.500 A.D. to 650 A.D. -- North India from c.650 A.D. to c.800 A.D. -- The Deccan up to the rise of the Rashtrakutas -- The struggle for supremacy - the Rashtrakutas, the Palas and the Gurjara-Pratiharas -- Downfall of the Pratihara Empire -- Invasions of Sultan Mahmud -- Northern India in the 11th and 12th centuries A.D. -- The Muslim conquest of Northern India -- Nepal and Kashmir -- Rise and fall of Empires in the Deccan -- Eastern and western Deccan -- South India -- Political theory and public administration -- Growth of local self government -- Religion -- Literature -- The system of education -- Economic condition -- Art and architecture -- Degradation of Hindu society -- Indian colonies in the far east