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.

Mega mammals in ancient India: rhinos, tigers, and elephants

Bose, Shibani

ISBN: 9780190120412, 019012041X

This books is especially well-timed as the conservation of our megafaunal heritage is a major concern for biologists, ecologists, and conservationists. It underlines the need to historicize human interactions with these mega mammals with the contention that awareness regarding their past is critical for their future.

Journal of Asian Civilization, Vol.39, No.2, Dec. 2016 (ISSN: 1993-4696)

Journal of Asian Civilization, Vol.40, 2017 (ISSN: 1993-4696)

Women in ancient India: myriad voices

ISBN: 9789387800335, 9387800334

Contents: (i) Women in Vedic Literature; (ii) Women in Epic and Puranas; (iii) Women in Classical Sanskrit Literature; (iv) Women in Narrative Literature.

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.

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.

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.

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

Pai, D.A.

ISBN: 9788178543321, 817854332X

Research in history of middle ages

Narayan, Awadh

ISBN: 9788189981730, 8189981730

The ring of truth and other myths of sex and jewelry

Doniger, Wendy

The roots of Hinduism: the early Aryans and the Indus civilization.

Parpola, Asko

ISBN: 9780199465149, 0199465142

In this pioneering book, the author traces the archaeological route of the Indo-Iranian languages from the Aryan homeland north of the Black Sea to Central, West, and South Asia. His comprehensive assessment of the Indus language and religion is based on all available textual, linguistic, and archaeological evidence and the result affirm cultural and religious continuity to the present day and ...

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.