Author : Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 24,17 MB
Release : 2023-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9788171540389
This book is the culmination of patient research and mature reflection of a profoundly original mind and has earned universal recognition and honour over the last few decades.
Author : Late Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789386042217
The use of scientific methodology, modern techniques of interpretation, and selection and analysis of basic problems make An Introduction to the Study of Indian History a vivid and absorbing read. The author has thrown open new fields for research through this book, which serves as a critical guide to scientific historical thought. It helps the reader gain profound insight into the past by examining monuments, customs and surviving records. At the same time, the present is shown to be the inevitable result of a steady historical development. Complete grasp of the material and mastery of detail shown in the survey of the development from a pre-historic tribal society to the present machine-age make this volume a unique contribution to contemporary historiography. This book is the culmination of patient research and mature reflection of a profoundly original mind and has earned universal recognition and honour over the last few decades.
Author : Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi
Publisher : South Asia Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 14,9 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Irfan Habib
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 23,30 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Historical materialism
ISBN : 1843310252
This volume offers a collection of several of Professor Habib's essays, providing an insightful interpretation of the main currents in Indian history.
Author : Romila Thapar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 14,22 MB
Release : 2004-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520242258
This new book represents a complete rewriting by the author of her A History of India, vol. 1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 542-544) and index.
Author : Frederick E. Hoxie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 49,5 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0199858896
The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History presents the story of the indigenous peoples who lived-and live-in the territory that became the United States. It describes the major aspects of the historical change that occurred over the past 500 years with essays by leading experts, both Native and non-Native, that focus on significant moments of upheaval and change.
Author : D D Kosambi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 18,63 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 : Eugène Burnouf
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 28,25 MB
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0226081257
The most influential work on Buddhism to be published in the nineteenth century, Introduction à l’histoire du Buddhisme indien, by the great French scholar of Sanskrit Eugène Burnouf, set the course for the academic study of Buddhism—and Indian Buddhism in particular—for the next hundred years. First published in 1844, the masterwork was read by some of the most important thinkers of the time, including Schopenhauer and Nietzsche in Germany and Emerson and Thoreau in America. Katia Buffetrille and Donald S. Lopez Jr.’s expert English translation, Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism, provides a clear view of how the religion was understood in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Burnouf was an impeccable scholar, and his vision, especially of the Buddha, continues to profoundly shape our modern understanding of Buddhism. In reintroducing Burnouf to a new generation of Buddhologists, Buffetrille and Lopez have revived a seminal text in the history of Orientalism.
Author : Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
Publisher : Primus Books
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 21,58 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9380607172
History as a social science is arguably more self-reflective than associated disciplines in that family. Other social scientists seem to see little reason to look beyond the paradigm they are developing in the present times. Historians on the other hand, tend to depend on the cumulative process of the development of their craft and the fund of accumulated knowledge. Yet, while this is acknowledged in the practice of research, Historiography in itself as a subject of study has rarely found its place in the syllabi of Indian universities. Knowledge of Historiography is taken for granted when a scholar plunges into research. In an attempt to address this lacuna, the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) has planned a series of volumes on Historiography comprising articles by subject specialists commissioned by the ICHR. The first volume in the series, Approaches to History: Essays in Indian Historiography brings to the readers the first fruits of that endeavour. While the essays encompass areas of research presently at the frontiers of new research, scholars will also find the bibliographies accompanying the essays of significant appeal.
Author : Sahana Singh
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 41,86 MB
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 194758653X
Just a thousand years ago, India was dotted with universities across its length and breadth, where international students flocked to gain credentials in advanced education. This illustrated book describes how these multi-disciplinary centers of learning existed in several forms such as forest universities, brick-and-mortar universities and temple universities. It examines the funding for these citadels of learning and their graduation ceremonies. The process by which India’s ancient systems of education helped to fuel a knowledge revolution around the world with its manuscripts, forming the basis for monographs and academic papers, is explained with references. The marauding incursions by Muslim invaders, which disrupted the idyllic world of university learning in India, followed by European colonization, which led to further erosion and degeneration of India’s traditional learning systems, have been taken up in some detail. Readers will get a snapshot view of India's education system down the ages from ancient to modern times.
