ISBN: 9788124607435 - sindhu-sarasvati civilization: new perspectives: a volume in memory of dr. shikaripur ranganatha rao (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. xii + 664.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Foreword/ Navin Doshi. Preface. Introduction/Nalini Rao. Part I: Something From and About S.R. Rao: 1. The language and script of the Indus civilization/S.R. Rao. 2. S.R. Rao's academic personality: My reminiscences/Sundara Adiga. 3. Dr S.R. Rao as I knew him/Nalini Rao. Part II: Articles: 4. Sarasvati drowned: rescuing her from scholarly whirlpools/Ashok Aklujkar. 5. "Sapta Sindhusu": The land of seven rivers: a new interpretation and its historical significance/Shiva G. Bajpai. 6. The chronology of puranic kings and Rgvedic Rsis in comparison with the phases of the Sindhu-Sarasvati civilization/Giacomo Benedetti. 7. The debate on Indo-Aryan origins: malleability and circularity/Edwin Bryant. 8. How Harappans honoured death at Dholavira/R.S. Bisht. 9. New findings in Harappan town planning and metrology/Michel Danino. 10. Time, space and structure in ancient India/Subhash Kak. 11. The Riverine-agricultural argument for the Indo-European nature of the Indus Valley civilization/Robin Bradley Kar. 12. Rgveda pre-dates the Sarasvatt-Sindhu culture/Nicholas Kazanas. 13. New perspectives on the Indus tradition: contributions from recent research at Harappa and other sites in Pakistan and India/Jonathan Mark Kenoyer. 14 Paleohydrology of the Sindhu-Sarasvati civilization River Systems/Prem Kishore Saint. 15. Settlement dynamics in ancient India: continuity vs. discontinuity/Jim G. Shaffer and Diane A. Lichtenstein. 16. The Sindhu-Sarasvati civilization alias the Indo-Iranian Civilization/Shrikant Talageri. 17. Genetic evidence of early human migrations in the Indian Ocean region disproves Aryan migration/invasion theories: an examination of small-statured human groups of the Indian ocean region/Lavanya Vamsani. Index. Sindhu-Sarasvati Civilization: New Perspectives. A Volume in Memory of Dr Shikaripur Ranganatha Rao is a compilation of the papers presented at the International Conference on the Sindhu-Sarasvati Civilization: A Reappraisal held in Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, during 21-22 February 2009. Here, eminent archaeologists, philologists, anthropologists and historians re-examine recent researches and existing theories upon the nature of the interrelation between the two most ancient pre- historic cultures of the South Asian subcontinent: the Indus (Sindhu or Harappan Civilization) and the Vedic Civilization. The scholars touch upon areas of consensus and contentions, with a tentatively conclusive inter- disciplinary understanding about the pluralistic culture and shared identity of the two riverine cultures between 3000 and 1500 BCE. They rightly swing the balance of the argument away from the archaic and now exploded Aryan Invasion Theory to the well-grounded Vedic Sarasvati milieu as the home of the Harappan Civilization. Thus it opens a new window to the cultural content of the prehistoric period of the subcontinent. The eminent personalities that have contributed include Ashok Aklujkar, Shiva G. Bajpai, Giacomo Benedetti, R.S. Bisht, Edwin Bryant, Michel Danino, Subhash Kak, Robin Bradley Kar, Nicholas Kazanas, Mark [onathan Kenoyer, Prem Kishore Saint, Jim J. Shaffer, Diane A. Lichtenstein, Shrikant Talageri, Lavanya Vamsani as well as Sundara Adiga, S.R. Rao, and Nalini Rao. This volume is poised to evoke keen interest among archaeologists, re-searchers, historians and students of history and archaeology.…