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India: A Concise History - Softcover

Watson, Francis

 
9780500271643: India: A Concise History
Softcover
ISBN 10: 050027164X ISBN 13: 9780500271643
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1979

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Verlag
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
1979
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
050027164X
ISBN 13 
9780500271643
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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