Archaeology of South India
Author : K. S. Ramachandran
Publisher : Delhi : Sundeep
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 10,97 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : K. S. Ramachandran
Publisher : Delhi : Sundeep
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 10,97 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Eleni Asouti
Publisher : Left Coast Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 33,68 MB
Release : 2008-07-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1598742310
This volume introduces the ecological history of woodland vegetation in South India. It incorporates a critical overview of the theories of ecological on the subcontinent while detailing the history of long-term changes in the tree and shrub vegetation of the Indian peninsula that have resulted from climate change and the impact of human activities on the landscape. The volume also demonstrates the potential of microscopic analysis of archaeological wood charcoal remains for the purpose of palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Included in the volume is a practical guide for the microscopic identification of the principal timber species of South India, accompanied by detailed information on the synecology and autecology of native trees and shrubs, and ethnographic evidence on their diverse uses and properties. An accompanying CD-ROM contains the complete identification guide and many full color illustrations of South Asian trees and shrubs to facilitate analysis.
Author : Anila Verghese
Publisher : OUP India
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,71 MB
Release : 2011-01-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780198068617
This volume presents a comprehensive account of the Vijayanagara Empire and Hampi-Vijayanagara site through a study of archaeology, photography, painting, sculptures, inscriptions, coinage, conservation and heritage, and existing scholarship.
Author : Kallidaikurichi Aiyah Nilakanta Sastri
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 1958
Category : India
ISBN :
Author : Charles Allen
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 21,68 MB
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1408705400
COROMANDEL. A name which has been long applied by Europeans to the Northern Tamil Country, or (more comprehensively) to the eastern coast of the Peninsula of India. This is the India highly acclaimed historian Charles Allen visits in this fascinating book. Coromandel journeys south, exploring the less well known, often neglected and very different history and identity of the pre-Aryan Dravidian south. During Allen's exploration of the Indian south he meets local historians, gurus and politicians and with their help uncovers some extraordinary stories about the past. His sweeping narrative takes in the archaeology, religion, linguistics and anthropology of the region - and how these have influenced contemporary politics. Known for his vivid storytelling, for decades Allen has travelled the length and breadth of India, revealing the spirit of the sub-continent through its history and people. In Coromandel, he moves through modern-day India, discovering as much about the present as he does about the past.
Author : Dilip K. Chakrabarty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 27,21 MB
Release : 2009-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199088144
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 : Peter Johansen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 24,60 MB
Release : 2024-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 104012593X
This book presents a paradigm shift in the long-term study of South India’s deep history. It refuses the disciplinary constraints of history and prehistory and interrogates the archaeological and textual records of the Deccan to disrupt its conventional archaeological periodizations, which have tended to reify and dehistoricize social and cultural differences. This book draws on over 20 years of original archaeological research from the southern Deccan region of India to critically reappraise the historiography that has framed its deep history. It fundamentally questions conventional archaeological paradigms, rooted in early colonial scholarship, which have structured interpretations of deep time with curiously ahistorical narratives of the past. This volume offers a more nuanced assessment of historical changes across a diversity of cultural, social, and political practices through the novel application of theoretical framings to archaeological and historical data, including political ecology, techno-politics, resource materialities, and landscape production. This book will interest an interdisciplinary audience of graduate and undergraduate students and professional academics, primarily in the fields of archaeology, history, and South Asian studies. Its theoretical interventions will also be of interest to those invested in the anthropology and the archaeology of politics, chronology, historicity, historiography, materiality and landscapes.
Author : G. Victor Rajamanickam
Publisher :
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 17,63 MB
Release : 1994
Category : India, South
ISBN :
Author : Shinu Anna Abraham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,59 MB
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1315431831
This compilation of original research articles highlight the important cross-regional, cross-chronological, and comparative approaches to political and economic landscapes in ancient South Asia and its neighbors. Focusing on the Indus Valley period and Iron Age India, this volume incorporates new research in South Asia within the broader universe of archaeological scholarship. Contributions focus on four major themes: reinterpreting material culture; identifying domains and regional boundaries; articulating complexity; and modeling interregional interaction. These studies develop theoretical models that may be applicable researchers studying cultural complexity elsewhere in the world.
Author : Robin Coningham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 40,68 MB
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1316418987
This book offers a critical synthesis of the archaeology of South Asia from the Neolithic period (c.6500 BCE), when domestication began, to the spread of Buddhism accompanying the Mauryan Emperor Asoka's reign (third century BCE). The authors examine the growth and character of the Indus civilisation, with its town planning, sophisticated drainage systems, vast cities and international trade. They also consider the strong cultural links between the Indus civilisation and the second, later period of South Asian urbanism which began in the first millennium BCE and developed through the early first millennium CE. In addition to examining the evidence for emerging urban complexity, this book gives equal weight to interactions between rural and urban communities across South Asia and considers the critical roles played by rural areas in social and economic development. The authors explore how narratives of continuity and transformation have been formulated in analyses of South Asia's Prehistoric and Early Historic archaeological record.