(The) Penguin history of early India from the origins to AD1300
by Romila Thapar
- New Delhi Penguin Books 2002
- xxx, 555p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Includes glossary, bibliography and index.
Perceptions of the past -- Landscapes and peoples -- Antecedents -- Towards chiefdoms and kingdoms: c.1200-60 BC -- States and cities of the Indo-Gangetic plain: c.600-300BC -- The emergence of empire: Mauryan India; c.321-185 BC -- Of politics and trade: c.200BC - AD 300 -- Threshold times: c.AD 300-700 -- The Peninsula: establishing authorities and structures; c.AD 900-1300 -- The politics of northern India: c.AD 700-1200 -- Northern India: distributive political economies and regional cultures; c.AD 800-1300