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  • The Idea of Ancient India

    Essays on Religion, Politics and Archaeology

    par Upinder Singh ...
    How can the complexities of ancient India be comprehended? This book draws on a vast array of texts, inscriptions, archaeology, archival sources and art to delve into themes such as the history of regions and religions, archaeologists and the modern histories of ancient sites, the interface between political ideas and practice, violence and resistance, and the interactions between the Indian ... En savoir plus

    $5.89 CAD

  • The Discovery of Ancient India

    Early Archaeologists and the Beginnings of Archaeology

    par Upinder Singh ...
    This book is written as much for the general reader interested in India's antiquity and its pioneering archaeologists, as for students of the history of archaeology, colonialism, and constructions of the past. It breaks colonial archaeology down into its specific constituents and examines the ideas, impulses, tensions, and individual contributions that comprised early studies of India's ancient ... En savoir plus

    $12.35 CAD

  • Political Violence in Ancient India

    par Upinder Singh ...
    Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru helped create the myth of a nonviolent ancient India while building a modern independence movement on the principle of nonviolence (ahimsa). But this myth obscures a troubled and complex heritage: a long struggle to reconcile the ethics of nonviolence with the need to use violence to rule. Upinder Singh documents the dynamic tension between violence and ... En savoir plus

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  • India's Ancient Past

    par R.S. Sharma ...
    This book presents a complete and accessible description of the history of early India. It starts by discussing the origins and growth of civilizations, empires, and religions. It also deals with the geographical, ecological, and linguistic backgrounds, and looks at specific cultures of the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Vedic periods, as well as at the Harappan civilization. In addition, the rise ... En savoir plus

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  • A History of India through 75 Objects

    par Sudeshna Guha ...
    With a curation of objects from the prehistoric ages through twenty-first century India, Sudeshna Guha provides a panoramic view of the rich histories of the subcontinent. The incisive essays in this collection detail not just the objects but the histories of their reception: examining how changing times and attitudes cast their shadow on the ways in which the past is interpreted and narrated. In ... En savoir plus

    $15.23 CAD

  • Ashoka and the Maurya Dynasty

    The History and Legacy of Ancient India’s Greatest Empire

    Collections series Dynasties
    At its peak in 250 BCE the Maurya Empire was the wealthiest and largest empire in the world, extending across much of modern India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. In this book Colleen Taylor Sen explores the life, achievements and legacy of the Maurya emperor Ashoka, one of the greatest leaders in Indian history. The book relates how, after a bloody war in 261 bce, Ashoka renounced violence and spent ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • Banaras Reconstructed

    Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City

    par Madhuri Desai ...
    Collections series Global South Asia
    Between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banaras, the iconic Hindu center in northern India that is often described as the oldest living city in the world, was reconstructed materially as well as imaginatively, and embellished with temples, monasteries, mansions, and ghats (riverfront fortress-palaces). Banaras’s refurbished sacred landscape became the subject of pilgrimage maps ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Return of the Buddha

    Ancient Symbols for a New Nation

    The Return of the Buddha traces the development of Buddhist archaeology in colonial India, examines its impact on the reconstruction of India’s Buddhist past, and the making of a public and academic discourse around these archaeological discoveries.The bookdiscusses the role of the state and modern Buddhist institutions in the reconstitution of national heritage through promulgation of laws for ... En savoir plus

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  • The Courts of Pre-Colonial South India

    Material Culture and Kingship

    par Jennifer Howes ...
    Collections series Royal Asiatic Society Books
    This book investigates how the material culture of South Indian courts was perceived by those who lived there in the pre-colonial period. Howes peels away the standard categories used to study Indian palace space, such as public/private and male/female, and replaces them with indigenous descriptions of space found in court poetry, vastu shastra and painted representations of courtly life. Set ... En savoir plus

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  • The Golden Road

    How Ancient India Transformed the World

    **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERUSA TODAY BESTSELLERWinner of the Mark Lynton History Prize 2026 * A Kirkus Reviews Best History Book of 2025 * A Library Journal Best Book of the Year * An NPR Book We Loved This YearThe instant New York Times bestseller and international sensation-a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia's underappreciated role in producing the world as we know ... En savoir plus

    $19.89 CAD

  • India

    A History

    par John Keay ...
    The most authoritative and highly regarded single-volume history of India – from ancient time to the modern day. Five millennia of the sub-continent’s social, economic, political and cultural history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India and the Far East.India’s history begins with a highly advanced urban civilisation in the Indus valley, regressing to a tribal and pastoral ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • A History of India

    par Romila Thapar ...
    A history of India upto 1300 AD introducing the beginnings of India's cultural dynamics ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD