India's ancient past / by R. S. Sharma
By: Sharma, R. S [Author].
Material type: TextPublisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: xiv, 387p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780195687859; 019568785X.Subject(s): History -- Ancient world history -- India | HistoryDDC classification: 934Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | HCC Seminar Library General Stacks | 934 SHI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 2018 | Available | 9823-9 |
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Includes chronology of literary sources, bibliography and index.
The significance of ancient Indian history -- Modern historian's of ancient India -- Nature of sources and historical construction -- Geographical setting -- Ecology and environment -- The linguistic background -- Human evolution: the old stone age -- The Neolithic age: first food producers and animal keepers -- Chalcolithic cultures -- Harappan culture: Bronze Age Urbanization in the Indus Valley -- Identity of Aryan culture -- The age of the Rig Veda -- The later Vedic phase: transition to State and Social orders -- Jainism and Buddhism -- Territorial states and the rise of Magadha -- Iranian and Macedonian invasions -- State structure and the Varna system in the age of the Buddha -- The Maurya age -- The significance of Maurya rule -- Central Asian contact and mutual impact -- The Satavahana phase -- The dawn of history in the deep south -- Crafts, commerce and urban growth (200BC-AD250) -- Rise and growth of the Gupta Empire -- Life in the Gupta Age -- Spread of civilization in Eastern India -- Harsha and his times -- Brahmanization, rural expansion and peasant protest in the Peninsula -- Developments in philosophy -- Cultural interaction with Asian countries -- From ancient to medieval -- Sequence of social changes -- Legacy in science and civilization
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