South Asian Archaeology & History (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka)

ISBN: 9780715636961
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
New evidence for trade between inhabitants of the Roman Empire and India is emerging all the time, and pointing to a rather different and more complex model than that originally popularised by Sir Mortimer Wheeler. By looking at the archaeology... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004160606
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
This book redefines the concepts of the city and civilization in the Harappan and Early Historic South Asia, using archaeological data and ancient Indian texts. In contrast to previous studies, it approaches the texts not as sources of factual... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780195690774
Published by : Oxford University Press
Sir Mortimer Wheeler was Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India for the crucial years of 1944-48, during which time India gained independence. This book uses his career in India as a case study by which to examine the aims and p... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905791934
Published by : Haus Publishing Limited
This dramatic account, written in an almost journalistic style, tells the story of an 1898 dig, conducted in Birdpore, India, near the Nepalese border, by William Claxton Peppe. Peppe claimed to have unearthed a reliquary containing the ashes o... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789077922569
Published by : Barkhuis
Volume 1 of eJIM, the eJournal of Indian Medicine. eJIM is a multidisciplinary periodical that publishes studies on South Asian medical systems by qualified scholars in philology, medicine, pharmacology, botany, anthropology and sociology. .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415356152
Published by : Routledge Ltd
This carefully crafted study presents the fascinating story of the development and establishment of India's culture and civilization from early pre-history through to the early second millennium. It Encompasses topics such as Harappan Civilizat... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415356169
Published by : Routledge Ltd
This carefully crafted study presents the fascinating story of the development and establishment of India's culture and civilization from early pre-history through to the early second millennium. It Encompasses topics such as Harappan Civilizat... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780500251348
Published by : Thames and Hudson
This is a well illustrated reign by reign chronicle of the Mughal emperors, from the first Il-Khan Hulagu (1256-1265) to the overthrow of Ahmad Shah in 1921. The clear and accessible narrative is supplemented by features highlighting social, art... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780252029882
Published by : University of Illinois Press
In Indo-European Sacred Space , Roger D Woodward provides a careful examination of the sacred spaces of ancient Rome, finding them remarkably consistent with older Indo-European religious practices as described in the Vedas of ancient India. Lo... .... Learn More