Which of us are Aryans? Rethinking the concept of our origins

Thapar, Romila et al.

ISBN: 9789388292382, 9388292383

In this book, scholars and experts critically examine the Aryan issue by analysing history, genetics, early Vedic compositions, archaeology and linguistics to test and challenge various hypotheses, myths, facts and theories that are currently in vogue.

Inscribing identities proclaiming piety: exploring recording practices in early historic India

Singh, Snigdha

ISBN: 9789355532909, 9355532903

It focuses on votive inscriptions from the second century BCE to the second century CE found in four areas: Bharhut, Sanchi, the Western Ghats and Mathura. In Barhut and Sanchi, votive inscriptions have been found on the architecture of the stupas and in Mathura on statues, while they have been found in caves and tanks along the Western Ghats. Focussing on the differences between the ecclesiast...

Even the past speaks: fragments of ancient Indian history and culture, essays in tribute to Prof. S.N. Agnihotri, ed. by Anup Kumar

ISBN: 9789383723157, 9383723157

Facets of temple culture: perspectives on religious and social traditions in early Medieval India, ed. by K. Mavali Rajan et al

ISBN: 9789386463067, 9386463067

The book is outcome of a national seminar on Order of Hierarchy in the Realm of Religion and Society: A Study of Temple Institutions in Early Medieval India organised by the department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan held on Febr. 20-21. 2016.

Cultural heritage of ancient India

ISBN: 9789388789332, 9388789334

The present volume contains 16 articles ranging from pre historic period to historic period throwing light on various aspects of Art, Architecture, Numismatics, Ethno-archaeology, field archaeology.

History of ancient India revisited: a Vedic-Puranic view

Chopra, Omesh K.

ISBN: 9789353477806, 9353477808

The Vedic-Puranic literature as well as archaeological, geological, historical, linguistic, and literary accounts have been reviewed to establish the various cultures that evolved in ancient India from about 3500 BCE to the Mahabharata War (1450 BCE). This book describes various misconceptions, e.g., the myth about an Aryan invasion.

Fort of Kerala: commercial and military dimensions

Unnikrishnan, S.

ISBN: 9789351711476, 9351711471

From local to global: papers in Asian History and culture, 3 vols., ed. by Kamal Sheel et al.

ISBN: 9789380852744, 9380852746

From the Oxus to the Indus: a political and cultural study c.300 BCE to c.100 BCE

Ghosh, Suchandra

ISBN: 9789386552464, 9386552469

This book explores the political and cultural history of the Indo-Iranian borderlands during the reign of the Bactrian and Indo-Greek rulers, known as Yavanas in the subcontinent. This was a region sans frontier and shows unrestricted exchanges between cultures.

The Asoka inscriptions: analysing a corpus

Tieken, Herman

ISBN: 9789355725677, 9355725671

This book attempts a textual and literary analysis of the inscriptions of Asoka- the oldest in India- and their relationship as a corpus. Unique in both content and format, the inscriptions primarily engage with ideas of good kingship and dhamma rather than with donations made or the celebration of territorial conquests, the usual topics of later inscriptions.

Genetics and the Aryan debate: Early Indians Tony Joseph's latest assault, preface by Koenraad Elst

Talageri, Shrikant G.

ISBN: 9789385485213, 9385485210

Narrativizing Bharatvarsa & other essays, rev. edn.

Dey, Saumya

ISBN: 9788182903951, 8182903955

This book is a collection of thirteen essays that have been grouped under three rubrics--'History', Representations and Politics', and 'Reflections'.

Glory of ancient India

Yadav, Neeta

ISBN: 9788173201776, 8173201773

On ancient Indian history, culture and archaeology.

Greek sources on India: Alexander to Megasthenes

Arora, Udai Prakash

ISBN: 9788173056017, 8173056013

Questioning paradigms constructing histories: a festschrift for Romila Thapar

ISBN: 9789388292344, 9388292340

In this Festschrift, Romila Thapar's students and colleagues from across the world celebrate her contributions by applying her methods and insights to a range of historical, philosophical, sociological and cultural questions.

The Harappans and Aryans

Dhavalikar, M.K.

ISBN: 9788173056123, 8173056129

There is a heated debate from the days the Indus or the Harappan civilization was discovered: whether it was Aryan or Dravidian. The flow of the new data is continuous and the controversy is becoming acrimonious. The study analyses all the new evidence and shows how it has contributed to the make up of Indian civilization and discusses how it can prove useful to bridge the hiatus between the pr...

Harsha revisited: a re-interpretation of existing data

Goyal, Shankar

ISBN: 9789387212114, 9387212114

The reign of Harsha (606-647 A.D.) is a comparatively well documented period of ancient Indian history. But it is indeed surprising that no full-length study of the sources of the period has been attempted so far. This book brings together all the existing data, freshly interpreted.

Health and happiness in Indian tradition, ed. by Shashi Tiwari

ISBN: 9788177023794, 8177023799

This volume comprises forty four selected papers which were presented at the Ninth India Conference of WAVES held at the Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Rajasthan Sanskrit University, Jaipur on the theme `Health and Happiness in Indian Tradition. These papers are in English, Hindi and Sanskrit by well-known scholars.

Hindu temples lost in the forest: rediscovering the world heritage site of Ishanapura-Sambor Prei Kuk

Sahai, Sachchidanand

ISBN: 9789387587304, 9387587304

This monograph takes the readers on an unanticipated journey in the interiors of the middle Mekong Valley in order to rediscover architectural marvels which once formed integral part of the city of Ishanapura, identified with the ruins of Sambor Prei Kuk in central Cambodia, and listed as UNESCO World Heritage site.

The historian and her craft: collected essays and lectures of Romila Thapar, 4 vols.

ISBN: 9780199467150, 0199467153

This is a comprehensive collection of essays and lectures by Romila Thapar, with each focusing on a theme--Historiography, Pre-Mauryan and Mauryan India, Social and Cultural Transactions, and Religion and Society.