
2023
Hardcover
601-700 Pages
Ravi Korisettar G. N. Devy, Tony Joseph
9789395853095
History
Aleph Book Company
Frist Edition
English
India
Name : The Indians
Author : Ravi Korisettar G. N. Devy, Tony Joseph
Book Format : Hardcover
Edition : Frist Edition
Genre : History
ISBN : 9789395853095
Language : English
Pages : 601-700 Pages
Publish Year : 2023
Publisher : Aleph Book Company
The Indians is one of the most ambitious projects yet undertaken to map the origins, evolution, and present-day reality of India's civilization and people. Written by over one hundred of South Asia's foremost scholars and domain experts, the essays in the book cover a period of some 12,000 years-from the last Ice Age to the twenty-first century.
The book is divided into seven sections. The first part looks at the evolution of humans in South Asia through the lens of the early 'Indian' population, their migrations, and the climate. The second part focuses on the emergence of different civilizations in the region through the domestication of plants and animals and other factors and how these civilizations eventually begin to decline. The third part discusses the languages and philosophies that defined ancient India-Buddhism, Jainism, Sanskrit, Indo-Iranian languages, and Pali literature, among others. The fourth part is a detailed study of society and culture in various geographical regions--the North, South, Northeast, the Deccan, East, and West India. The fifth part looks at the advent of colonialism and its impact on the country's economy, social fabric, and knowledge systems. The sixth part looks at Adivasi movements, Ambedkarite politics, Gandhian resistance, and other events that would come to form the bedrock of the independent republic. And, finally, the seventh part loo
Country of Origin : India
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