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History of Ancient India : The Texts, Political History and Administration till C. 200 BC (Volume III)
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Editors : Dilip K Chakrabarti, Makkhan Lal
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It is important to reassess, formulate and develop India’s civilizational and cultural imperatives in an increasingly globalised world. The nation?s perception of its ancient history plays a major role in this. The present series on the history of ancient India was conceived with this in mind. The aim is to put forward a nationalistic, factual and objective history of the ancient Indian past in eleven volumes. The cobwebs of certain ideas that we have lived with in the past are critically examined and in many cases found wanting and discarded. The present volume, third in the series, has to begin with the Aryan problem on which scholars have written for close to three centuries. Much of what has been written still clings like mill-stones to our necks, and we have argued why and how we should get rid of the general obsession with this notion. We have denied that the entire corpus of the Vedic literature is anything but an interconnected corpus of Indian texts and has to be viewed thus historically. A scholarly review of the Buddhist and Jaina literature features next with the issues such as the dates of the Buddha and Mahavira. Orthodox political history is introduced with the Mahajanapadas contemporary with the life of the Buddha and Mahavira and the subsequent emergence of Magadha as the leading political power of the country. The beginning and end of the Mauryan power along with the earlier political episodes of the Achaemenid and Greek invasions bring the political history part of the volume to conclusion. Following this, there are chapters on the urbanism, inscriptions and coins of the period and notes on 21 major archaeological sites.
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| Weight | 2.450 kg |
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| Dimensions | 25 × 16 × 7.5 cm |
| Type | Hardbound |
| Language | English |
| Country of Origin | India |
| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Publisher | Aryan Books International |
| Delivery Time | 3-4 days |
| About the editors | Dilip K. Chakrabarti is Emeritus Professor of South Asian Archaeology at Cambridge University and Dean, Centre for Historical and Civilizational Studies, VIF. He has a large number of research books and articles to his credit. Makkhan Lal, taught at Banaras Hindu University and Aligarh Muslim University. He was a Visiting Fellow in Clare Hall, Cambridge University. He was elected member of the Executive Committee of World Archaeological Congress representing South Asia (1986-94) and also Academic Programme Co-ordinator and Treasurer of World Archaeological Congress-3 (1990-94). He is founding Professor-Director of Delhi Institute of Heritage Research and Management (established by the Government of Delhi) and a Senior Fellow at Vivekananda International Foundation. He has a large number of books and research articles to his credit. |
| Content | Foreword ix Editors? Preface xix Part I THE VEDIC TEXTS AND RELATED ISSUES I.1. The Aryan Hypothesis: Theories 3 and Arguments ? Makkhan Lal I.2. The Horse and the Aryan Debate 30 ? M. Danino I.3. Genetics and the Aryan Issue 44 ? M. Danino I.4. India of the Vedic Texts 65 ? Dilip K Chakrabarti I.5. Traditional Political History 112 ? Dilip K Chakrabarti Part II THE BUDDHIST AND JAINA TEXTS II.1. The Buddhist and Jaina Texts 127 ? K.T.S. Sarao and Anita Sharma Part III POLITICAL HISTORY AND ADMINISTRATION TILL c. 200 BC III.1. Janapadas, Mahajanapadas, 183 Kingdoms, and Republics ? K.T.S. Sarao III.2. The Achaemenid Expansion 205 to the Indus and Alexander?s Invasion of the North-West ? Cameron A. Petrie and Peter Magee III.3. The Mauryas 231 ? Ranabir Chakravarti III.4. Cheras, Cholas and Pandyas 276 ? K.Rajan Part IV IRON AGE TO EARLY HISTORY IV.1. Ganga Plain and North-Central 301 Vindhyas ? Rakesh Tewari IV.2. Peninsular and Southern India 343 ? R.K. Mohanty and Tilok Thakuria IV.3. Early Agriculture in the Middle 379 Ganga Plain ? K.S. Saraswat Part V INSCRIPTIONS AND COINS V.1. Asokan and Post-Asokan 413 Inscriptions (up to c. 200 BC) ? Ashvini Agrawal V.2. Evolution of Coinage and 422 Early Indian Coins ? Devendra Handa Part VI THE GROWTH OF EARLY HISTORIC CITIES AND STATES VI.1. Early Historical Urbanism and 435 State Formations ? Makkhan Lal Part VII SITE REPORTS VII.1. Ayodhya 501 ? Ashok K Singh VII.2. Chandraketugarh 506 ? Dilip K Chakrabarti VII.3. Charsadda 512 ? Cameron A. Petrie VII.4. Hathab 523 ? Milisa Srivastava VII.5. Jhusi (Pratishthanpur) 525 ? J.N. Pal VII.6. Kapilavastu-Lumbini 541 ? Rakesh Tewari VII.7. Kausambi 551 ? J.N. Pal VII.8. Mahasthangarh 566 ? Sufi Mostafizur Rahman VII.9. Mathura 574 ? Vinay Gupta VII.10. Pataliputra 593 ? B.R. Mani and Vinay Gupta VII.11. Rajagriha 599 ? B.R. Mani and Vinay Gupta VII.12. Sarnath 609 ? B.R. Mani VII.13. Sisupalgarh 617 ? B.B. Lal, R.K. Mohanty and Monica Smith VII.14. Sravasti 629 ? Ashok K Singh VII.15. Sugh 635 ? Devendra Handa VII.16. Sunet 643 ? Devendra Handa VII.17. Taxila 652 ? Cameron A. Petrie VII.18. Tosali 664 ? Dilip K Chakrabarti VII.19. Vaisali 668 ? Ashok K. Singh VII.20. Varanasi 673 ? Ashok K Singh VII.21. Wari-Bateshwar 681 ? Sufi Mostafizur Rahman Contributors 691 Index 693 |
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