Prehistoric Ancient and Hindu India

Name : Prehistoric Ancient and Hindu India

Author : R. D. Banerji

Book Format : Paperback

Genre : Reference

ISBN : 9788121265584

Language : English

Pages : 301-400 Pages

Publish Year : 2022

Publisher : Gyan Publishing House

About The Book : This book is about the prehistoric, ancient and Hindu India, and covers several aspects such as physical features of India, the races of India and their languages, earlier Indo-Aryans and the Dravidians, Vedic Literature, the Epic Literature of India. The book also talks about Jainism, Buddhism. Besides, sixteen kingdoms of the north, the Persian conquest of northwestern India, the Maurya empire, Greek invasions, Dravidian dynasties of the South, the culture of northern India, Gupta empire of northern India, southern dynasties of the early medieval period, early medieval culture of southern India, the origin of the Rajputs and the rise of the Gurjara empire, the early medieval kingdoms of north-eastern India, the late medieval dynasties of the south, the medieval history of Kasmira, and the Muhammadan conquest of northern India are some of the topics of the book. In short, the book covers an ocean of information. About The Author : Rakhal Das Banerji, also Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay, (1885 –1930), was an Indian archaeologist and an officer of the Archeological Survey of India (ASI). In 1919, he became the second ASI officer deputed to survey the site of Mohenjo-daro by Sir John Marshall, director-general of the ASI, and returned there in the 1922–1923 season. He was the first person to propose the remote antiquity of the site—which he did in a letter to Marshall i

Country of Origin : India