Kailashnath hetu: essays on preshistory, protohistory and historical archaeology, 2 vols., ed. by Ajit Kumar, et al

ISBN: 9788183152983, 8183152988

This festschrift contains essays in honour of K.N. Dikshit, an eminent archaeologist, covering prehistory, protohistory, rock-art, megaliths, early historic, medieval excavations, archaeology, epigraphy, art, architecture and iconography from reputed scholars.

Anekanta: exploring the Shramana tradition: festschrift to Prof. Hampa Nagarajaiah (Hampana)

ISBN: 9789393809032, 9393809038

Kingship and religion in ancient Persia: Government research fellowship lectures, 2015-2016

Curtis, Vesta Sarkhosh

ISBN: 9789381324110, 9381324115

Contents: Chapter 1-Kingship and religion in Ancient Persia; Chapter 2-Zoroastrian Iconography on coins of Ancient Persis (Fars); Chapter 3-Artistic exchanges in Parthian and Sasanian times. The author focuses on the crucial information about iconography and religion that can be gleaned from coin image an inscriptions. These throw light on the concept of kingship and related iconography in the ...

A little book of India: celebrating 75 years of Independence

Bond, Ruskin

ISBN: 9780670096626, 0670096628

As India completes 75 years of independence, we bring to you a slice of our beloved country in the words of our favourite author, Ruskin Bond. Drawing on his own memories and impressions of this unique land, he pays homage to the country that has been his home for 84 years. Bond talks fondly about the diverse elements that make up this beautiful land-its rivers and forests, literature and cultu...

Towards a nationalist narrative of India's ancient past: including recent research on the Indus Civilization

Chakrabarti, Dilip K.

ISBN: 9788173056666, 8173056668

The volume argues that the geographical and chronological implications of some recent discoveries conclusively underline that India's protohistoric archaeological column and the literary column represented by the Vedic literature are inseparably, linked, thus forming the first block of the seamless narrative of India's ancient past.

Early Indian history and beyond: essays in honour of B.D. Chattopadhyaya

ISBN: 9789352905973, 9352905970

The book is a tribute to Professor B.D. Chattopadhyaya's profound scholarship by a community of well-known scholars, his former colleagues, and students sharing his enthusiasm in the field of Early Indian history.

Literary and religious practices in medieval and early modern India

ISBN: 9789350981368, 935098136X

Covering the history of medieval and early modern India, from eighth to the eighteenth centuries, this volume is part of a new series of collections of essays that would publish latest research on all aspects of politics, society, economy, religion and culture.

Ayodhya: past and present

Mukherjee, Sutapa

ISBN: 9789356292154, 9356292159

This book gives voice--through innumerable personal interviews--to the people of the pilgrim town, both the movers and shakers of the mandir-masjid tussle as well as the commoners caught in the crossfire.

Main currents in Indian history: ancient, medieval and modern (from the beginnings to 1964)

Rao, K S Kameswara

ISBN: 9788131604229, 8131604225

Material life of Northern India (c.600 BCE-300 BCE): an archaeo-literary evidences

Bari, Mohammad Nazrul

ISBN: 9788173201684, 8173201684

Maurya empire, ed. by Vasundhra Singh

ISBN: 9789385496257, 9385496255

Methodologies of interpreting the ancient past of South Asia: studies in material culture, ed. by Nupur Dasgupta, et al.

ISBN: 9789383221073, 9383221070

Kaverippakkam: history and art traditions

Desikan, V.N. Srinivasa

ISBN: 9789385459108, 9385459104

The Classical Age, foreword by K.M. Munshi,

ISBN: 9788172765217, 8172765215

This volume maintains the leading trait of the series viz., to devote more attention to the social and cultural aspects of the story than to the purely political side, and the narrative of dynastic struggles and wars.... The political history is generally complete and up-to-date and a great amount of authentic information on social and economic history has been culled and presented systematical...

Mithila and Magadha (700 AD - 1100 AD)

Jha, Laxman

Museums, archaeology and culture

Bobade, Bhujang Ramrao et al.

ISBN: 9789386223111, 9386223112

Nalanda, its Mahavihara and Xuan Zang

Prasad, Chandra S.

ISBN: 9788178542942, 8178542943

Nayankara system in Andhra during Vijayanagara period

Babu, M. Bosu

ISBN: 9789351711254, 9351711250

This book deals with the origin and nature of the Nayankara system, political geography of Andhra region, administrative divisions of Andhra etc. based on Epigraphy particularly.

Niyoga: alternative mechanism to lineage perpetuation in early India, a socio-historical enquiry

Sahgal, Smita

ISBN: 9789384082857, 9384082856

This book attempts to explore the institution of niyoga in early India, examining its genesis and trajectory through the temporal and spatial canvas, for though the focus remains on the early period, the fluctuations are best studied over a larger span of time.

An outline of the Aryan civilization

Nandi, Ramendra Nath

ISBN: 9789350981580, 9350981580

This book attempts a comprehensive account of the old Vedic society with particular focus on the physical conditions of life during the Bronze Age in north western South Asia. Based primarily on textual evidence, the narrative relates wherever necessary to the known archaeological information from the area.