East of Indus
Author : Gurnam Singh Sidhu Brard
Publisher : Hemkunt Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9788170103608
Where the Indus is Young
Author : Dervla Murphy
Publisher : Eland Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781906011666
Book Description
One winter, Dervla Murphy and her six-year-old daughter explored 'Little Tibet' high up in the Karakoram Mountains in the frozen heart of the Western Himalayas. Dervla records their adventures, from crumbling tracks over bottomless chasms, to assaults by lascivious Kashmiris.
Indus Writing in Ancient Near East
Author : S. Kalyanaraman
Publisher :
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780982897188
Book Description
Based on corpora of Indus writing and a dictionary, the book validates Aristotle's insight on writing systems. Indus writing is composed using symbols of spoken words. The symbols are hieroglyphs of meluhha (mleccha) words spoken by artisans recording the repertoire of stone, mineral and metal workers. The writing results in a set of catalogs of metalworking of bronze age. Evidence of this competence in metallurgy which evolved from 4th millennium BCE of bronze age, is provided in corpora of metalware catalogs and a dictionary of melluhha (mleccha). Indus writing was a principal tool of economic administration for account-keeping by artisan and trader guilds and did not record literature or, history. Some sacred ideas and historical links across interaction areas between India and ancient Near East, may be inferred from the writing.
Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River
Author : Alice Albinia
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 37,60 MB
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0393063224
Book Description
“Alice Albinia is the most extraordinary traveler of her generation. . . . A journey of astonishing confidence and courage.”—Rory Stewart One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imperial expansion, and today is the cement of Pakistan’s fractious union. Alice Albinia follows the river upstream, through two thousand miles of geography and back to a time five thousand years ago when a string of sophisticated cities grew on its banks. “This turbulent history, entwined with a superlative travel narrative” (The Guardian) leads us from the ruins of elaborate metropolises, to the bitter divisions of today. Like Rory Stewart’s The Places In Between, Empires of the Indus is an engrossing personal journey and a deeply moving portrait of a river and its people.
Understanding Collapse
Author : Guy D. Middleton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 19,20 MB
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 110715149X
Book Description
In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around collapses - showing how and why collapse of societies was a much more complex phenomenon than is often admitted.
The Indus Civilization
Author : Gregory L. Possehl
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 35,3 MB
Release : 2002-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0759116423
Book Description
The Indus Civilization of India and Pakistan was contemporary with, and equally complex as the better-known cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt and China. The dean of North American Indus scholars, Gregory Possehl, attempts here to marshal the state of knowledge about this fascinating culture in a readable synthesis. He traces the rise and fall of this civilization, examines the economic, architectural, artistic, religious, and intellectual components of this culture, describes its most famous sites, and shows the relationships between the Indus Civilization and the other cultures of its time. As a sourcebook for scholars, a textbook for archaeology students, and an informative volume for the lay reader, The Indus Civilization will be an exciting and informative read.
Blood and Water
Author : David Gilmartin
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 38,67 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520355539
Book Description
"The book is a history of the political and environmental transformation of the Indus basin as a result of the modern construction of the world's largest, integrated irrigation system. Begun under British colonial rule in the 19th century, this transformation continued after the region was divided between two new states, India and Pakistan, in 1947. Massive irrigation works have turned an arid region into one of dense agricultural population, but its political legacies continue to shape the politics and statecraft of the region"--Provided by publisher.
Plant Inventory
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 15,85 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Germplasm resources, Plant
ISBN :
Book Description
A Handbook of Ancient Religions
Author : John R. Hinnells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 30,52 MB
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1139461982
Book Description
Ancient civilisations exercise an intense fascination for people the world over. This Handbook provides a vivid, scholarly, and eminently readable account of ancient cultures around the world, from China to India, the Middle East, Egypt, Europe, and the Americas. It examines the development of religious belief from the time of the Palaeolithic cave paintings to the Aztecs and Incas. Covering the whole of society not just the elite, the Handbook outlines the history of the different societies so that their religion and culture can be understood in context. Each chapter includes discussion of the broad field of relevant studies alerting the reader to wider debates on each subject. An international team of scholars convey their own deep enthusiasm for their subject and provide a unique study of both popular and 'official' religion in the ancient world.
Indus Civilization
Author : R.K. Pruthi
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 9788171418657
Book Description
Contents: Introduction, The Indus Civilization, Origin and Development of the Indus Civilization, Extent and Distribution of Sites, Customs and Amusements, Indian Types of Pottery Vessels in Dvaravati Culture, Inscriptions in Mohenjo Daro, Cracking the Indus Valley Code, Extension of the Indus Civilization, Economics of the Indus Valley Civilization, The Decline, Causes of the Ruin, Some New Evidences, Mohenjo-daro and Rigveda, Is Indus Valley Civilization Dravidian s or Aryan s?
