India Discovered The Recovery Of A Lost Civilization

Author : John Keay
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007399642
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book India Discovered: The Recovery of a Lost Civilization written by John Keay and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two hundred years ago, India was seen as a place with little history and less culture.Today it is revered for a notable prehistory, a magnificent classical age and a cultural tradition unique in both character and continuity. How this extraordinary change in perception came about is the subject of this fascinating book.

Author : John Keay
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book India Discovered written by John Keay and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1988 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a study of the European discovery of India's ancient past. Two hundred years ago, India was seen as a place with little history and less culture. Today it is revered for a notable prehistory, a magnificent classical age and a cultural tradition unique in both character and continuity. How this extraordinary change in perception came about is the subject of this book. The excitement of unearthing a city twice as old as Rome, the realization that the Buddha was not a god but a historical figure, the glories of a literature as rich as anything known in Europe, the drama of encountering a veritable Sistine chapel deep in the jungle, and the delight of categorizing 'the most glorious galaxy of monuments in the world' fell, for the most part, to men who were officials of the British Raj. Their response to the unfamiliar -- the explicitly sexual statuary, the incomprehensible scripts, the enigmatic architecture -- and the revelations which resulted, revolutionized ideas not just about India but about civilization as a white man's prerogative.

Author : Andrew Robinson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780235410
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indus written by Andrew Robinson and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Alexander the Great invaded the Indus Valley in the fourth century BCE, he was completely unaware that it had once been the center of a civilization that could have challenged ancient Egypt and neighboring Mesopotamia in size and sophistication. In this accessible introduction, Andrew Robinson tells the story—so far as we know it—of this enigmatic people, who lay forgotten for around 4,000 years. Going back to 2600 BCE, Robinson investigates a civilization that flourished over half a millennium, until 1900 BCE, when it mysteriously declined and eventually vanished. Only in the 1920s, did British and Indian archaeologists in search of Alexander stumble upon the ruins of a civilization in what is now northwest India and eastern Pakistan. Robinson surveys a network of settlements—more than 1,000—that covered over 800,000 square kilometers. He examines the technically advanced features of some of the civilization’s ancient cities, such as Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, where archaeologists have found finely crafted gemstone jewelry, an exquisite part-pictographic writing system (still requiring decipherment), apparently Hindu symbolism, plumbing systems that would not be bettered until the Roman empire, and street planning worthy of our modern world. He also notes what is missing: any evidence of warfare, notwithstanding an adventurous maritime trade between the Indus cities and Mesopotamia via the Persian Gulf. A fascinating look at a tantalizingly “lost” civilization, this book is a testament to its artistic excellence, technological progress, economic vigor, and social tolerance, not to mention the Indus legacy to modern South Asia and the wider world.

Author : John Keay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780711200470
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book India Discovered written by John Keay and published by . This book was released on 1981-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Keay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788449918629
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book India Discovered written by John Keay and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134251629
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book India: The Ancient Past written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Enrico Baccarini
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781793404923
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vimanas and the Wars of the Gods: The Rediscovery of a Lost Civilization, of a Forgotten Science and of an Ancient Lore of India and Pakistan written by Enrico Baccarini and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2016 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astonishing book that will lead to rewrite the history of mankind. An unexplored world, a journey beyond the boundaries of human history. From over five thousand years India and Pakistan seem to guard jealously a forgotten past, a secret locked inside of the oldest traditions that human history knows. The journey starts from an highly evolved civilization but fall into oblivion, a culture that left to posterity a huge amount of texts transmitted orally and later merged into Hinduism. Traditions that speak of lost civilizations, wars fought between men and gods with highly advanced technologies and machines capable of flying in the air and in space called Vimana. Following the tracks and studies conducted in the '70s by David William Davenport, has set new light on the events that led to the destruction of the city of Mohenjo Daro (Pakistan) and the disappearance of the Harappan civilization tying their story to submerged ruins discovered in the Indian Ocean and dated back to 10,000 years ago.

Author : Meghnad Desai
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 818475566X
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rediscovery of India written by Meghnad Desai and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes India a nation? What has held its many disparate societies with their diverse, sometimes conflicting, narratives together for more than sixty years? What has allowed India to sustain its commitment to the democratic process, given its location in a region that is largely undemocratic? In this magisterial analysis of the last five hundred years of Indian history, Meghnad Desai looks at India’s colonial past, its struggle for independence and its many contemporary conundrums, to discover answers to the questions that have confronted India-watchers for decades. Rejecting much received wisdom, including narratives fashioned by India’s ruling establishment, Meghnad Desai goes back to the beginnings of the East–West encounter at the end of the fifteenth century and tracks its impact on the cultures and politics of the present day. Through a series of ‘Counterfactual Boxes’ Meghnad Desai analyses the accepted defining moments of India’s past and suggests alternative courses that history could so easily have taken. Meghnad Desai draws on a wealth of sources to illuminate India’s journey to the twenty-first century. Whether it is an examination of British parliamentary debates on the question of India’s independence, or the liberalization of the economy after decades of licence-permit raj, or the state’s complicity in the Gujarat riots, Meghnad Desai’s original, occasionally iconoclastic, approach to seemingly settled arguments makes The Rediscovery of India a path-breaking and comprehensive account of India’s past and present.

Author : Yorim Spoelder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1009403184
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visions of Greater India written by Yorim Spoelder and published by . This book was released on 2023-11-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Greater India' was a transimperial, Indocentric research paradigm that informed the colonial recovery of the ancient past in Central and Southeast Asia. Ancient India was postulated as the fount of an expansive classicism - an actor in world history on a par with ancient Greece and Rome. Under the Greater India movement, the scholarly quest for 'India in Asia' became tied to anti-colonial, pedagogical, nationalist and Asianist agendas. Yet although it provided a potent anti-colonial imaginary, the movement also bolstered visions of Indian exceptionalism and energized Hindu nationalist ideas of India as a civilizing, colonizing power. Speaking directly to debates that define and divide India today, this is essential reading for those interested in the legacies of Orientalist scholarship and interwar visions of Indian internationalism. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816541116
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Ages of Discovery written by Stephen J. Pyne and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 600 years, Western civilization has relied on exploration to learn about a wider world and universe. The Great Ages of Discovery details the different eras of Western exploration in terms of its locations, its intellectual contexts, the characteristic moral conflicts that underwrote encounters, and the grand gestures that distill an age into its essence. Historian and MacArthur Fellow Stephen J. Pyne identifies three great ages of discovery in his fascinating new book. The first age of discovery ranged from the early 15th to the early 18th century, sketched out the contours of the globe, aligned with the Renaissance, and had for its grandest expression the circumnavigation of the world ocean. The second age launched in the latter half of the 18th century, spanning into the early 20th century, carrying the Enlightenment along with it, pairing especially with settler societies, and had as its prize achievement the crossing of a continent. The third age began after World War II, and, pivoting from Antarctica, pushed into the deep oceans and interplanetary space. Its grand gesture is Voyager’s passage across the solar system. Each age had in common a galvanic rivalry: Spain and Portugal in the first age, Britain and France—followed by others—in the second, and the USSR and USA in the third. With a deep and passionate knowledge of the history of Western exploration, Pyne takes us on a journey across hundreds of years of geographic trekking. The Great Ages of Discovery is an interpretive companion to what became Western civilization’s quest narrative, with the triumphs and tragedies that grand journey brought, the legacies of which are still very much with us.