Plunging the ocean: courts, castes, and courtesans in the Kathasaritsagara

Malhan, Tara Sheemar

ISBN: 9789384082864, 9384082864

The book engages with the voluminous content of the Kathasaritsagara, a text meant for courtly entertainment, locating the various points of its retelling and recognizing the timelessness of the tales themselves.

The complete history of ancient and medieval India, 2 vols. in 6 parts

Abraham, Eraly

ISBN: 9780143424390, 0143424394

This box set comprises the acclaimed books Gem in the Lotus, The First Spring (Part 1), The First Spring (Part 2), The Age of Wrath, The Last Spring (Part 1) and The Last Spring (Part 2). In this enthralling account, historian Abraham Eraly conjures a vivid picture of ancient, classical and medieval India-from the foundational seed of the Indus Valley Civilization in 2500 BCE to the grand saga ...

Textbook of Indian history and culture

Sen, Sailendra Nath

ISBN: 9789384082581, 9384082589

This study of Indian History and Culture has been designed for both students and general readers. This book puts emphasis on the main currents of Indian history in all its facets: political, social, economic and cultural aspects.

Political thoughts in India (400 B.C.-1980)

Appadorai, A.

ISBN: 9788185495712, 8185495718

Traces the origins and evolution of Indian political thinking from ancient;times to the present, with relevant extracts from original texts.

Political violence in ancient India

Singh, Upinder

ISBN: 9780674975279, 0674975278

The book looks at representations of kingship and political violence in epics, religious texts, political treatises, plays, poems, inscriptions, and art from 600 BCE to 600 CE.

A population history of India: from modern people to the present day

Dyson, Tim

ISBN: 9780198841708, 0198841701

This book provides an account of the size and characteristics of India's population stretching from when hunter-gatherer Home sapiens first arrived in the country--very roughly seventy thousand years ago--until the modern era.

The Sarasvati Civilisation: a paradigm shift in Ancient Indian history

Bakshi, G.D.

ISBN: 9781942426141, 1942426143

Prehistoric cultures in Nepal, from the early Palaeolithic to the Neolithic and the Quarternary geology of the Dang-Deokhuri Dun valleys, 2 vols.

Corvinus, Gudrun

ISBN: 9783447055819, 3447055812

The monograph presented here is the outcome of many years of fieldwork and of subsequent detailed analysis and documentation of the abundant data collected in the field of Nepal. The project titled originally Quartaruntersuchungen Nepal, Erforschung der Stratigraphie and Urgeschichte in den Churia Hills (Siwaliks) began in March 1983 and ended in August 1994. It included two aspects of research...

Prehistory and protohistory of India

Jain, KC

ISBN: 9788173201912, 8173201919

This book gives an account of the evolution and growth of cultures from the times when man settled in this country ending with the 6th cent. B.C.

A forgotten empire (Vijayanagar): a contribution to the history of India, 6th ed,

Sewell, Robert

An unholy brew: alcohol in Indian history and religions

McHugh, James

ISBN: 9780197641958, 0197641954

The first comprehensive book on alcohol in pre-modern India, the book uses a wide range of sources from the Vedas to the Kamasutra to explore drinks and styles of drinking, as well as rationales for abstinence from the earliest Sanskrit written records through the second millenniums CE.

Chinese sources of South Asian History in translation, Vol. VIII: the oceanic islands

Ray, Haraprasad

ISBN: 9789381574911, 938157491X

This volume mainly deals with two oceanic Islands-Laccadive and Maldives. This volume will enhance the knowledge of the region.

Jainism before 650 BCE, 2nd rev.

Jain, Shugan C. et al.

ISBN: 9788124611081, 8124611084

Ancient history of India reveals that there were two parallel traditions in India, viz. Vedic and Sramanic. The Sramana Tradition includes Jainism, Buddhism and others such as the Ajivikas and Ajtianas. Jain religious tradition is one of the oldest living religions of India. Historicity of 24th Tirthalikara Mahavira in sixth century BCE is well established. The Jain records mention the name of ...

Religious sects in Ancient India (ancient and medieval), ed. by Pushpendra Kumar

Pai, D.A.

ISBN: 9788178543321, 817854332X

Physical education in ancient India

Deshpande, S.H.

The book contains exhaustive account of the programme of physical education in ancient India. The author has given copious references from the spectrum of wide variety of ancient Indian texts, with some archaeological findings. This book is a sort of compendium and authentic text sheding light on the programme of physical education in ancient Indian.

Research in history of middle ages

Narayan, Awadh

ISBN: 9788189981730, 8189981730

The ring of truth and other myths of sex and jewelry

Doniger, Wendy

Lords of the Deccan: Southern India from the Chalukyas to the Cholas

Kanisetti, Anirudh

ISBN: 9789391165055, 9391165052

The author takes us to early medieval Deccan, from 6th century CE to 12th century CE, in all its splendour and riotous glory.

The sacred landscape of Mundeshwari: the 'oldest living' temple

Jayaswal, Vidula et al.

ISBN: 9788173055867, 8173055866

Reputed to be one of the oldest living temples of the world, Mundeshwari is also the oldest temple of Nagar/North Indian style in the outskirts of Varanasi. The present volume brings to light all the available information on the historical, ethnographic and archival records of Mundeshwari. Together with the data which has been assimilated by experts in the field of epigraphy, art history and et...

Sakuntala: texts, readings, histories

Thapar, Romila

ISBN: 9788188965601, 818896560X

This book attempts to explore some of the links between culture, history and gender, and between literature and history, through reading variant versions of the narrative of Sakuntala.