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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 806
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A Comprehensive History of India: pt. 1. A.D. 300-985
Author: A Comprehensive History of India: pt. 1-2. A.D. 300-985
Author: An Atlas and Survey of South Asian History
Author: Karl J. SchmidtPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317476808
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This historical atlas is devoted primarily to India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, while also covering Napal, Bhutan and Ceylon/Sri Lanka. The maps are accompanied by text which illuminates recent political, economic, social and cultural developments.
Studying Early India
Author: Brajadulal ChattopadhyayaPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1843311321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A focal study of the methodological changes that confront historians of pre-colonial India.
Beyond Borders
Author: Ashish KumarPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031435931
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book examines the economic history of ancient South Asia by situating the Malwa region of Central India within Afro-Eurasian trade networks to illuminate the role of traders in the political, religious and economic processes connected with the Indo-Sasanian trade in the period of five centuries, circa CE 300-700. The book challenges the long-held centrality of the Roman factor in the South Asian economy by locating the Indo-Sasanian interactions in long distance economic networks with trade as a central feature. It considers the role and influence of traders as an understudied group affecting the contribution of the Indian economy to the world system. Amidst rapidly changing political landscapes, traders of Indian and Sasanian origins are studied as conscious political beings, who formed ties with varieties of polities and religious communities to secure their commercial interests. In addition, their commercial interactions with their Sogdian (Central Asia) and Aksumite (East Africa) counterparts are analyzed. The book also considers the nature of trade routes and the specific connections between mercantile and religious networks, including patterns of construction of religious shrines and temples along trade routes. Integrating epigraphic, numismatic, literary and archaeological evidence, this book moves away from a marginal treatment of the Indo-Sasanian trade in Indian history, and demonstrates how regional economic history must address a plurality of causes, actors, and processes in its assessment of the regional economy. The book will be of interest to students and academics of Indian economic history, as well as the ancient economies of South Asia more broadly.
Military Manpower, Armies and Warfare in South Asia
Author: Kaushik RoyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317321286
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Roy investigates the various factors that influenced the formation and mobilization of military forces in the region from 300 BC to the modern day.
Change, Continuity and Complexity
Author: Jae-Eun ShinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429831021
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The Mahāvidyās are the representative Tantric feminine pantheon consisting of ten goddesses. It is formed by divergent religious strands and elements: the mātṛ and yoginī worship, the cult of Kālī and Tripurasundarī, Vajrayāna Buddhism, Jain Vidyādevīs, Śaiva and Vaiṣṇava faith, Śrīvidyā, the Brahmanical strand of Puranic traditions, etc. This volume is the first attempt to explore the historical process, through which these traditions culminated in the Mahāvidyā cult and the goddesses with different origins and contradictory attributes were brought into a cluster, with special reference to socio-political changes in the lower Gaṅgā and Brahmaputra Valley between the 9th and 15th centuries CE. Based on a close analysis of Purāṇas, Tantras and inscriptional evidence, and on extensive field research on archaeological remains as well as sacred sites, Jae-Eun Shin discusses the two trajectories of the Mahāvidyās in eastern Śākta traditions. Each led to the systematization of Daśamahāvidyās in a specific way: one, as ten manifestations of Durgā upholding dharma in the cosmic dimension, and the other, as ten mandalic goddesses bearing magical powers in the actual sacred site. Their attributes and characteristics have neither been static nor monolithic, and the mode of worship prescribed for them has changed in a dialectical religious process between Brahmanical and Tantric traditions of the region. This is the definitive work for anyone seeking to understand goddess cults of South Asia in general and the history of eastern Śākta traditions in particular. To aid study, the volume includes images, diagrams and maps. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Recent Perspectives of Early Indian History
Author: Romila ThaparPublisher: Popular Prakashan
ISBN: 9788171545568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Contributed articles.
A Comprehensive History of India
Author: Al-Biruni's Discovery of India
Author: M. A. Saleem KhanPublisher: Iacademic Books
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description