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  • The Idea of Ancient India

    Essays on Religion, Politics and Archaeology

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    How can the complexities of ancient India be comprehended? This book draws on a vast array of texts, inscriptions, archaeology, archival sources and art to delve into themes such as the history of regions and religions, archaeologists and the modern histories of ancient sites, the interface between political ideas and practice, violence and resistance, and the interactions between the Indian ... Leer más

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  • Political Violence in Ancient India

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    Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru helped create the myth of a nonviolent ancient India while building a modern independence movement on the principle of nonviolence (ahimsa). But this myth obscures a troubled and complex heritage: a long struggle to reconcile the ethics of nonviolence with the need to use violence to rule. Upinder Singh documents the dynamic tension between violence and ... Leer más

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  • The Discovery of Ancient India

    Early Archaeologists and the Beginnings of Archaeology

    de Upinder Singh ...
    This book is written as much for the general reader interested in India's antiquity and its pioneering archaeologists, as for students of the history of archaeology, colonialism, and constructions of the past. It breaks colonial archaeology down into its specific constituents and examines the ideas, impulses, tensions, and individual contributions that comprised early studies of India's ancient ... Leer más

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  • The Idea of Ancient India (Hindi)/Prachin Bharat Ki Avadharna/प्राचीन भारत की अवधारणा

    Dharm, Rajniti Aur Puratatwa Par Nibandh/धर्म, राजनीति और पुरातत्त्व पर निबंध

    इतिहासकारों के बीच पुरातनता और उसके काल-विभाजन की अवधारणा को लेकर हुए लंबे वाद-विवादों के परिणामस्वरूप आजकल ‘प्राचीन’ जैसे विशेषणों के प्रयोग में भारी कमी आ गई है और उसके स्थान पर ‘प्रारंभिक’ शब्द को अधिक तरजीह दी जाने लगी है। वैसे ‘प्राचीन’ में गहराई है, रहस्य और स्पंदन है। प्राचीन भारत की अवधारणा विचारों की बहुलता के साथ अतीत और साथ-ही-साथ ऐतिहासिक व्याख्या का एक मूलभूत हिस्सा है। इसलिए ‘प्राचीन ... Leer más

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    This book presents a complete and accessible description of the history of early India. It starts by discussing the origins and growth of civilizations, empires, and religions. It also deals with the geographical, ecological, and linguistic backgrounds, and looks at specific cultures of the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Vedic periods, as well as at the Harappan civilization. In addition, the rise ... Leer más

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  • India: The Ancient Past

    A History of the Indian Subcontinent from c. 7000 BCE to CE 1200

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    India: The Ancient Past provides a clear and systematic introduction to the cultural, political, economic, social and geographical history of ancient India from the time of the pre-Harappan culture nine thousand years ago up until the beginning of the second millennium of the Common Era. The book engages with methodological and controversial issues by examining key themes such as the Indus ... Leer más

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  • A History of India through 75 Objects

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    With a curation of objects from the prehistoric ages through twenty-first century India, Sudeshna Guha provides a panoramic view of the rich histories of the subcontinent. The incisive essays in this collection detail not just the objects but the histories of their reception: examining how changing times and attitudes cast their shadow on the ways in which the past is interpreted and narrated. In ... Leer más

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  • Ashoka and the Maurya Dynasty

    The History and Legacy of Ancient India’s Greatest Empire

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    At its peak in 250 BCE the Maurya Empire was the wealthiest and largest empire in the world, extending across much of modern India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. In this book Colleen Taylor Sen explores the life, achievements and legacy of the Maurya emperor Ashoka, one of the greatest leaders in Indian history. The book relates how, after a bloody war in 261 bce, Ashoka renounced violence and spent ... Leer más

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  • Banaras Reconstructed

    Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City

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    Between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banaras, the iconic Hindu center in northern India that is often described as the oldest living city in the world, was reconstructed materially as well as imaginatively, and embellished with temples, monasteries, mansions, and ghats (riverfront fortress-palaces). Banaras’s refurbished sacred landscape became the subject of pilgrimage maps ... Leer más

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  • The Return of the Buddha

    Ancient Symbols for a New Nation

    The Return of the Buddha traces the development of Buddhist archaeology in colonial India, examines its impact on the reconstruction of India’s Buddhist past, and the making of a public and academic discourse around these archaeological discoveries.The bookdiscusses the role of the state and modern Buddhist institutions in the reconstitution of national heritage through promulgation of laws for ... Leer más

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  • The Courts of Pre-Colonial South India

    Material Culture and Kingship

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    This book investigates how the material culture of South Indian courts was perceived by those who lived there in the pre-colonial period. Howes peels away the standard categories used to study Indian palace space, such as public/private and male/female, and replaces them with indigenous descriptions of space found in court poetry, vastu shastra and painted representations of courtly life. Set ... Leer más

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  • The Golden Road

    How Ancient India Transformed the World

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