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Item Details
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CONCISE HISTORY OF INDIA
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| By: |
Francis Watson |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£8.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
050027164X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780500271643 |
| Publisher: |
THAMES & HUDSON LTD |
| Pub. date: |
22 October, 1979 |
| Series: |
Illustrated Natural History S. |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Description: |
A history of India, beginning in the 3rd millennium BC with the Indus Valley civilization and ending with the rise of modern India. It also looks at the pastoral nomads who established the Vedic religion, the Moghul incursions and the British influence. |
| Synopsis: |
The recovery of India's immense history owes much to Western and particularly British researches; yet attempts to compress it often concentrate on the brief Imperial period. This up-to-date survey treats the latter as merely the penuitimate chapter in a story that begins in the 3rd millennium BC with the Indus Valley civilization. The influx of pastoral nomads - first in a long series of invasions from the north established the Vedic religion, whose assimilation of popular cults and formalization in Sanskrit writing and social castes supplied the cohesion which subsequent events - the Moghul incursions, the British Empire, the rise of modern India - did little to change. The enduring distinctiveness of India, its often bewildering "diversity of unity", emerges as a product of geographical simplicity and great historical complexity. |
| Illustrations: |
182 illustrations, 4 maps |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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