East of Indus
Author | : Gurnam Singh Sidhu Brard |
Publisher | : Hemkunt Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9788170103608 |
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Author | : Gurnam Singh Sidhu Brard |
Publisher | : Hemkunt Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9788170103608 |
Author | : Dervla Murphy |
Publisher | : Eland Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781906011666 |
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.
Author | : Steffen Laursen |
Publisher | : Eisenbrauns |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Antiquities |
ISBN | : 9781575067568 |
During the third millennium BC, the huge geographical area stretching between the Mediterranean in the west and the Indus Valley in the east witnessed the rise of a commercial network of unmatched proportions and intensity, within which the Persian Gulf for long periods functioned as a central node. In this book, Laursen and Steinkeller examine the nature of cultural and commercial contacts between Babylonia, the Gulf region, and Indus Civilization. Focusing on the third and early second millennia BC, and using both archaeological data and the evidence of ancient written sources, their study offers an up-to-date synthetic picture of the history of interactions across this vast region. In addition to giving detailed characterizations and evaluations of contacts in various periods, the book also treats a number of important related issues, such as the presence of Amorites in the Gulf (in particular, their role in the rise of the Tilmun center on Bahrain Island); the alleged existence of Meluhhan commercial outposts in Babylonia; and the role that the seaport of Gu'abba played in Babylonia's interactions with the Gulf region and southeastern Iran.
Author | : Robin Coningham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 557 |
Release | : 2015-08-31 |
Genre | : 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.
Author | : Hugh Chisholm |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1016 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mortimer Wheeler |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1968-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521069588 |
This book discusses climate and dating of the Indus Valley civilization and Sir Mortimer Wheeler summarizes other contributions to the study.
Author | : Guy D. Middleton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2017-06-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110715149X |
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.
Author | : S. Kalyanaraman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780982897188 |
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.
Author | : Aitzaz Ahsan |
Publisher | : Roli Books Private Limited |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2005-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 935194073X |
The Indus region, comprising the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent (now Pakistan), has always had its distinct identity - racially, ethnically, linguistically and culturally. In the last five thousand years, this region has been a part of India, politically, for only five hundred years. Pakistan, then, is no 'artificial' state conjured up by the disaffected Muslim elite of British India. Aitzaz Ahsan surveys the history of Indus - as he refers to this region - right from the time of the Harappan civilization to the era of the British Raj, concluding with independence and the creation of Pakistan. Ahsan's message is aimed both at Indians still nostalgic about 'undivided 'India and their Pakistani compatriots who narrowly tend to define their identity by their 'un-Indianness'.
Author | : Alice Albinia |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2010-04-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393338606 |
Albinia follows the Indus River in Asia, one of the largest rivers in the world, through 2,000 miles of geography and back to a time 5,000 years ago when a string of sophisticated cities grew on its banks. Illustrations.