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Indus Civilization: Text and Context: Volume 1

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This volume is the first publication of the Indus Project at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN) in Kyoto Japan. The work consists of three papers and a comprehensive bibliography. In the first paper Kharakwal presents an overview of Indus civilization with the most recent data in a compact way. Witzel’s paper which is the longest deals with the Ancient connection with South Asia and Central Asia illustrated by the analysis of Vedic texts. In the last paper Sato suggests a key role for rice in the ancient Indus area. The bibliography on Indus civilization compiled by Osada covers latest material on the Indus script seals raw materials and network with Mesopotamia. About the Editor Toshiki Osada is Professor at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN) Kyoto and the leader of Indus Project. He has conducted extensive field research on the language and culture of the Mundas since 1984. His major publications include A Reference Grammar of Mundari (1992) and some books on Munda languages and culture in Japanese. He is also the editor of Linguistics Archaeology and Human Past in South Asia (2009). Contributors J.S. Kharakwal is senior faculty at the Department of Archaeology at JRN Rajasthan Vidya-peeth University Udaipur. He wrote his doctoral thesis at Deccan College Pune in 1994. Michael Witzel is Professor in the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies Harvard University. He is a well-known Indologist specializing in the archaic Indian (Vedic) period. His major publications include Das alte Indien (2003). Yo-Ichiro Sato is Professor at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN) Kyoto. He has advocated the theory of the Chinese (Yangtze River) origin of rice cultivation. He has published more than a dozen books.

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Travels in Western India

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The present work contains a narrative of places visited by James Tod on the way to his return to England. Starting from Udaipur in Rajasthan to Mandavi in Kutch he traversed Saurashtra and Kutch from where he travelled to Chandravati Anhilvad Patan Ahmedabad Vadodara Khambhat Bhavnagar Valabhi Palitana Somnath Junagarh Dwarka Bhuj and several other places. This account is replete with facts and first hand information of these places. Particularly fascinating are his accounts of the Jain temples at Dilwara Palitana and the Girnar hills and the ancient remains of Chandravati Ahmedabad Junagarh Bhuj and other towns. Equally fascinating are traditions sects and beliefs of these places which Tod could explain with felicity. Included in the account are fine woodcut illustrations of monuments plans of some of the places as well as drawings of sundry items observed by Tod. About the Author James Tod (1782-1835) was an English military officer of the British East India Company and an Oriental scholar. He travelled India in 1799 as a cadet in the Bengal army. He rose to become Captain of an escort for an envoy in the Sindian royal court and later Political Agent for some areas of Rajputana. He combined his official role and his amateur interests to create a series of works about the history and geography of India and in particular the area then known as Rajputana and corresponds to the present state of Rajasthan.

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The Nayakas of Ikkeri

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The Ikkeri kingdom at its zenith comprised an area corresponding to the entire coast of Karnataka from Goa in the north to erstwhile Cannamore in the south as also part of Shimoga district of Mysore. From its nebular beginnings in AD 1500 to its end in AD

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The Aryans: A Study of Indo-European Origins

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The startling discoveries in the Ancient East and the great progress made in the study of the prehistoric civilizations of Europe and especially of Greece necessitated a fresh survey of the fascinating question as to the origin and diffusion of those languages to which we in common with the ancient Greeks Romans and Hindus are heirs. Most of the languages of Europe America and India today belong to one linguistic family generally called the Indo-European. To whatever physical race or races they belonged they must have possessed a certain spiritual unity. To their linguistic heirs they bequeathed if not skull type or bodily characteristics at least something of this more subtle and precious spiritual identity. The first great world religions which addressed their appeal to all men irrespective of race or nationality were Buddhism and Zoroastrianism were the works of Aryans propagated in Aryan speech. Philologists to-day recognize eleven groups of languages descended from the Aryan root. This book discusses in depth the first appearance of the Aryans on the stage of history Aryanization of the Mediterranean primitive Aryan culture Asiatic cradle of the Aryans Aryans in Central Europe North European cradle of the Aryans and Aryans in South Russia. About the Author V. Gordon Childe (1892-1957) was an Australian archaeologist who specialized in the study of European pre-history. From 1927 to 1946 he worked as the Abercromby Professor of Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh and then from 1947 to 1957 as the Director of the Institute of Archaeology London. He wrote 26 books during his illustrious career.

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The Currencies of the Hindu States of Rajputana

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The author who was posted as Surgeon Captain in the Indian Medical Service Bengal Army in his leisure hours during the years spent on duty at the courts of Udaipur and Bikaner devoted his attention to the subject of coinage in the native states of Rajputana. The amount of local coins circulating in the Rajput states was very large almost the collection of a century. The coins were fashioned in a crude way with a hammer and anvil and had plain unmilled edges. Stamping was carried out in a similarly rough manner – one workman holding the piece of metal between two dyes while another workman with a blow from a heavy hammer completed the coin. Gold silver and copper coins were minted. Some of these mints were later closed down due to an order of the British Indian government in 1870. However some rupee coins were given permission to continue. The book covers the history of the coins of Mewar Dungarpur Marwar Jhalawar Alwar Bharatpur etc. About the Author William Wilfrid Webb was Surgeon Captain in the Indian Medical Service with Bengal Army.

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The Age of the Imperial Guptas

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This book is a collection of six lectures on the ‘Age of the Imperial Guptas’ delivered at the Banaras Hindu University by renowned scholar R.D. Bannerji in 1924. The Age of the Imperial Guptas is a very important epoch in ancient Indian history. This book delineates with a masterly hand the multifarious manifestations of the spirit of the age. It gives not only an account of the Gupta chronology and administration but also of the literary and religious revival and of the architectural sculptural and numismatic achievements of the age. About the Author Rakhaldas Bannerji (1885-1930) was an eminent Indian archaeologist historian and museum expert. He is mostly known as the discoverer of Mohenjo-Daro the principal site of the Harappan culture. He is the author of several books including the two volume Banglar Itihas (History of Bengal); History of India Mohenjo-Daro (in Bengali) and several other books on Indian history.

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Akbar and the Rise of Mughul Empire

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The Arabs Turks Afghans and the Mughals dominated the political scene of India for centuries. All the rulers witnessed great revolutions but they refused to be absorbed in the social structure of Hindu society. Religious persecution and planting of Muslim standards was the aim of the rulers. These facts were realised by Akbar. When he became emperor he wanted to unite the people of Hindustan and to be regarded by his subjects as a protecting father. This book discusses briefly about the life of Akbar who firmly established Mughal rule in India and also deals with him as a husband a father an administrator a soldier and a man who despite of a religious education abounding in the inculcation of hostility to all who differed from Islam gave his intellect the freest course and based his conduct on the teachings of his intellect. About the Author G.B. Malleson (1825-98) obtained a cadetship in the Bengal Infantry in 1842 and served through the Second Burmese War. His subsequent appointments were in the civil line the last being the guardian to the young maharaja of Mysore. A prolific writer his first work to attract attention being the famous Red Pamphlet was published from Calcutta in 1857 when the Sepoy Mutiny was at its height. Among his other books are History of the Indian Mutiny 1857-58 in 6 vols.; History of the French in India and The Decisive Battles of India. He authored the biographies of Akbar French Governor Dupleix and the British officer Robert Clive in the Rulers of India Series

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Intercourse Between India and the Western World

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This book is a succinct account of the intercourse between India and the Greco-Roman world from the earliest times till the fall of Rome. From prehistoric times three great trade routes have connected India to the West – the Persian Gulf route the overland route from Indian passes to the Balkh and from there by river to the Caspian; then to the Eixine and Antioch and Hekatompylus and lastly the circuitous sea route down the Persian and Arabian coasts to Aden and up the Red Sea to Suez to Egypt and Tyre and Sidon on the other. The earliest of the intercourse was between Indus valley and the Euphrates. The Hittite kings bore Aryan names and worshipped the Vedic gods. The intercourse between India and the Semitic nations was mostly carried out by sea. In fact India was more or less in constant communication with the West for nearly ten centuries and influenced the West greatly. About the Author H.G. Rawlinson was Professor of English at the Deccan College Poona. He is the author of Baktria The History of a Foreign Empire Indian Historical Studies etc.

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The Provinces of Bihar and Bengal Under Shahjahan

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This book originally published by the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh in 1974 endeavours to delineate the history of Bihar and Bengal from the time of Shahjahan’s usurpation of these provinces during his father’s reign till the outbreak of the war of succession among his four sons. Its aim was to fulfil the lacunae which existed even after the completion of two works on seventeenth century Bengal – T.K Ray Chaudhuri’s Bengal under Akbar and Jehangir and a doctoral thesis‘Bengal in the time of Aurangzeb’. This book in addition to the political narrative gives an account of the actual working of the administrative machinery the economic conditions and the socio-religious life of the Muslims. A very interesting period it saw the development of Mughal administration in Bihar and Bengal. Land revenue figures showed considerable improvement in commerce too there was marked progress. This period also saw an unprecedented influx of Persian noblemen here. The influx of Mughal officers and men of learning and culture brought refinement and culture to all spheres of social life. Also the people of Bengal cultivated their own Bengali literature. The author has sourced from Persian sources European travellers’ accounts English factory records and contemporary literary works. About the Author Khondkar Mahbubul Karim did his PhD from London. He was Director of Archives and Libraries Bangladesh.

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A Grammar of the Persian Language

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The Persian language is rich melodious and elegant; it has been spoken for ages by the greatest princes in the political courts of Asia and a number of admirable works have been written in it by historians philosophers and poets. In spite of it the study of this language was hardly cultivated in the West. They were mostly relegated to library shelves with scholars convinced that there could be nothing valuable in them. Some detested Persian as they did not understand it another reason was the scarcity of books. William Jones first gives a history of the Persian language from the time of Xenophon till his time and added copious praxis of tales from classical writers of Persian. The author first acquaints the readers with the common terms of grammar and the letters of the alphabet before going into the grammar. This sixth edition of the Grammar of the Persian Language published in 1828 was carefully revised by the editor Rev. Samuel Lee Prof of Arabic in the University of Cambridge. About the Author Sir William Jones (1746-94) was an Anglo-Indian philologist barrister and a scholar of Ancient India. In 1784 he founded the Asiatic Society in Calcutta and started studying the Vedas. He went on to write on local laws music and geography and botany and made the first English translations of several important works of Indian literature.

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