Author : Kirsten Holm
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 44,7 MB
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1448862183
Reveals everyday life in ancient China through an account in graphic novel format of an ordinary day for a peasant family growing rice during the Han Dynasty.
Author : LeeAnn Blankenship
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1477789529
It's difficult to understand ancient civilizations when they lived so differently than we do today. This volume makes ancient India relevant by describing the day-to-day lifestyles of people of the Indus Valley Civilization, the Maurya Empire, and the Gupta Empire. Readers will learn about the roles of women, men, and children; what their homes looked like; the clothes they wore; their grooming habits; and what they liked to eat. With engaging text, rich and colorful illustrations, and an enhanced e-book option, this title is a valuable research resource for reports.
Author : Kirsten Holm
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 23,14 MB
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1448865638
In this exciting volume, readers take a journey down the Ganges to Ancient India and peer into the life of a garland-maker. The book also elaborates on the ways of life and religious beliefs that shaped ancient Indian communities. Easy-to-follow language helps readers find out about the caste system, culture, economy, and government as they follow this garland maker and his family through a typical day in Ancient India.
Author : Uma Chakravarti
Publisher : Tulika Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,9 MB
Release : 2012-05
Category : India
ISBN : 9788189487959
This volume of essays moves the historiography of ancient India in the service of a history of the present. The cultural onslaught of a brahmanical saffron culture within popular discourse, and the fight against entrenched class and caste interests led by women, dalits, and other marginalized groups, frame this battle for 'ancient' India. Through an in-depth analysis of myths and original sources, the author provides novel grounds for contesting the foundations of such charged concepts as 'nation', 'civilization, ' and 'womanly honour'. Reading against the grain of canonical sources, she presents a distinctive reading of lesser known Buddhist Pali texts, the Jataka stories, and even contemporary texts like the TV serials Chanakya and Ramayana, to demonstrate the stratifications in early Indian society. The book brings to light several crucial concepts and categories that make possible a sensitive delineation of social alienation, class antagonism and gendered violence in ancient Indian society. The everyday histories of dasas, karmakaras, 'a'grihinis, bhaktins, and gahapatis provide an understanding of ancient India away from the clichéd invocations of ideal kings, brahmanas, and pativratas.
Author : LeeAnn Blankenship
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1477789502
It's difficult to understand ancient civilizations when they lived so differently than we do today. This volume makes ancient India relevant by describing the day-to-day lifestyles of people of the Indus Valley Civilization, the Maurya Empire, and the Gupta Empire. Readers will learn about the roles of women, men, and children; what their homes looked like; the clothes they wore; their grooming habits; and what they liked to eat. With engaging text, rich and colorful illustrations, and an enhanced e-book option, this title is a valuable research resource for reports.
Author : D D Kosambi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1000653471
First published in 1965, The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline is a strikingly original work, the first real cultural history of India. The main features of the Indian character are traced back into remote antiquity as the natural outgrowth of historical process. Did the change from food gathering and the pastoral life to agriculture make new religions necessary? Why did the Indian cities vanish with hardly a trace and leave no memory? Who were the Aryans – if any? Why should Buddhism, Jainism, and so many other sects of the same type come into being at one time and in the same region? How could Buddhism spread over so large a part of Asia while dying out completely in the land of its origin? What caused the rise and collapse of the Magadhan empire; was the Gupta empire fundamentally different from its great predecessor, or just one more ‘oriental despotism’? These are some of the many questions handled with great insight, yet in the simplest terms, in this stimulating work. This book will be of interest to students of history, sociology, archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies, South Asian studies and ethnic studies.
Author : Anne Kolb
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 3110592029
This volume explores the significance of literacy for everyday life in the ancient world. It focuses on the use of writing and written materials, the circumstances of their use, and different types of users. The broad geographic and chronologic frame of reference includes many kinds of written materials, from Pharaonic Egypt and ancient China through the early middle ages, yet a focus is placed on the Roman Empire.
Author : Robert Garland
Publisher : Sterling
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 20,62 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781454909088
You'll explore all aspects of Greek life: literacy, household chores, education, illness, festivals, economy and trade, coinage, law and order, military service, the Olympic Games, theatrical performances, mythology, and more.
Author : Sunil Khilnani
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9385990950
For all of India’s myths, stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, recapturing the human dimension of how the world’s largest democracy came to be. His trenchant portraits of emperors, warriors, philosophers, film stars and corporate titans—some famous, some unjustly forgotten—bring feeling, wry humour and uncommon insight to dilemmas that extend from ancient times to our own.
Author : James Mallinson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 47,63 MB
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0141978244
'An indispensable companion for all interested in yoga, both scholars and practitioners' Professor Alexis G. J. S. Sanderson Despite yoga's huge global popularity, relatively little of its roots is known among practitioners. This compendium includes a wide range of texts from different schools of yoga, languages and eras: among others, key passages from the early Upanisads and the Mahabharata, and from the Tantric, Buddhist and Jaina traditions, with many pieces in scholarly translation for the first time. Covering yoga's varying definitions, its most important practices, such as posture, breath control, sensory withdrawal and meditation, as well as models of the esoteric and physical bodies, Roots of Yoga is a unique and essential source of knowledge. Translated and Edited with an Introduction by James Mallinson and Mark Singleton
