India: A Concise History - Couverture souple

Watson, Francis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 050027164X ISBN 13 : 9780500271643

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1979

Synopsis

The recovery of India's immense history owes much to Western and particularly British researches; yet attempts to compress it often concentrate on the brief Imperial period. This up-to-date survey treats the latter as merely the penuitimate chapter in a story that begins in the 3rd millennium BC with the Indus Valley civilization. The influx of pastoral nomads - first in a long series of invasions from the north established the Vedic religion, whose assimilation of popular cults and formalization in Sanskrit writing and social castes supplied the cohesion which subsequent events - the Moghul incursions, the British Empire, the rise of modern India - did little to change. The enduring distinctiveness of India, its often bewildering "diversity of unity", emerges as a product of geographical simplicity and great historical complexity.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1979
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 050027164X
• ISBN 13: 9780500271643
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible