A History of India, Third Edition

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A HISTORY OF INDIA A History of India presents the grand sweep of Indian history from antiquity to the present in a compact and ...

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A HISTORY OF INDIA Third Edition Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund London and New York ...

First published 1986 in hardback by Croom Helm Australia Pty Ltd Second edition first published 1990 in paperback This edition f ...

v CONTENTS List of maps vii Preface viii INTRODUCTION: HISTORY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 1 1 EARLY CIVILISATIONS OF THE NORTHWEST 16 P ...

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vii 6 THE PERIOD OF COLONIAL RULE vi Company Bahadur: trader and ruler Imperial structure and the regional impact The pattern o ...

viii PREFACE India’s history is the fascinating epic of a great civilisation. It is a history of amazing cultural continuity whi ...

PREFACE ix publications and, therefore, they are glad to be able to communicate with them in this way. But, of course, this hist ...

PREFACE x He benefited a great deal from discussions with Martin Brandtner, Kiel, while revising the first chapter. Dietmar Rot ...

INTRODUCTION History and the environment Environment—that is a world alive and related to a living centre, the habitat of an ani ...

INTRODUCTION (Raichur Doab), the area of the east coast where the highlands are nearest to the sea (to the north of present Madr ...

INTRODUCTION 40 miles in the area between Jagadhri and Ambala. The land is rather flat in this area and even a small tectonic ti ...

INTRODUCTION burned down. The Aryan fire god, Agni, was credited with the feat of colonising this land for the Aryans. They stop ...

INTRODUCTION ANCIENT EMPIRES AND RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS The east not only produced the first Indian empire, it also gave rise to ne ...

INTRODUCTION Brahmin advisors must have prompted him to identify himself with the Vedic tradition which they had preserved in th ...

INTRODUCTION for the military potential of the chakravartin was enough for the maintenance of universal dominance. Many such emp ...

INTRODUCTION power monopoly. The eastern environment of Magadha provided an ample supply of wild elephants, but maintenance was ...

INTRODUCTION THE REGIONAL PATTERN OF INDIAN HISTORY The first major region of the Indian subcontinent is the alluvial land of th ...