Author: Om Prakash Misra
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788170998747
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Author: Julia Shaw
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315432633
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1029

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The “monumental bias” of Buddhist archaeology has hampered our understanding of the socio-religious mechanisms that enabled early Buddhist monks to establish themselves in new areas. To articulate these relationships, Shaw presents here the first integrated study of settlement archaeology and Buddhist history, carried out in the area around Sanchi, a Central Indian UNESCO World Heritage site. Her comprehensive, data-rich, and heavily illustrated work provides an archaeological basis for assessing theories regarding the dialectical relationship between Buddhism and surrounding lay populations. It also sheds light on the role of the introduction of Buddhism in changing settlement patterns.This volume was originally published in 2007 by the British Association of South Asian Studies.

Author: Derek Kennet
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110653540
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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This book reports on excavations at Paithan in India revealed the development of two early Hindu temples from the 4th century to the 9th: the key formative phase of Hinduism. The temples started as small shrines but were elaborated into formal temples. In relation to these changes, the excavations revealed a sequence of palaeobotanical and palaeofaunal evidence that give insight into the economic and social changes that took place at that time.

Author: D. L. N. Sastry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Author: Colin Renfrew
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107082730
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 469

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This volume, with essays by leading archaeologists and prehistorians, considers how prehistoric humans attempted to recognise, understand and conceptualise death.

Author: Dilip K. Chakrabarty
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199088144
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377

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This book charts the flow of India's grass-roots archaeological history in all its continuities and diversities from its Palaeolithic beginnings to AD 300. The second edition includes a new afterword which discusses all new ideas and discoveries in Indian archaeology in the past one decade.

Author:
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004036918
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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Author: R. K. Sharma
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Author: Vasant Shinde
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1934536660
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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"Gilund Archaeological Research Project, jointly in collaboration between Deccan College, Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Deemed University, Pune, India, and the University of Pennsylvania Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA"--Title page verso.

Author: Nayanjot Lahiri
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674915259
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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In the third century BCE, Ashoka ruled an empire encompassing much of modern-day India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. During his reign, Buddhism proliferated across the South Asian subcontinent, and future generations of Asians came to see him as the ideal Buddhist king. Disentangling the threads of Ashoka’s life from the knot of legend that surrounds it, Nayanjot Lahiri presents a vivid biography of this extraordinary Indian emperor and deepens our understanding of a legacy that extends beyond the bounds of Ashoka’s lifetime and dominion. At the center of Lahiri’s account is the complex personality of the Maurya dynasty’s third emperor—a strikingly contemplative monarch, at once ambitious and humane, who introduced a unique style of benevolent governance. Ashoka’s edicts, carved into rock faces and stone pillars, reveal an eloquent ruler who, unusually for the time, wished to communicate directly with his people. The voice he projected was personal, speaking candidly about the watershed events in his life and expressing his regrets as well as his wishes to his subjects. Ashoka’s humanity is conveyed most powerfully in his tale of the Battle of Kalinga. Against all conventions of statecraft, he depicts his victory as a tragedy rather than a triumph—a shattering experience that led him to embrace the Buddha’s teachings. Ashoka in Ancient India breathes new life into a towering figure of the ancient world, one who, in the words of Jawaharlal Nehru, “was greater than any king or emperor.”