Heinz-Murray 2E.book

CHRONOLOGY OF INDIAN HISTORY 2500 1500 300 100 B.C.E. 300 C.E. 400 800 1200 1500 1757– 1900 1947 Indus Valley Civilization (ca. ...

149 A Forgotten Past In 1827 an English soldier of the East India Company deserted his regi- ment, footing it with a friend west ...

150 Part III: South Asia India, but India itself had no historical memory of this, and Buddhism had dis- appeared from the land ...

Chapter 5 India 151 Buddha that he and his companions mistook for a beautiful female deity. There were rock-cut caves and arches ...

152 Part III: South Asia of specialization and stratification, the king gathered around him a full-time warrior class; priests w ...

Chapter 5 India 153 Ministers codified the law. Priests pondered the old myths and rites, raising new philosophical questions; t ...

154 Part III: South Asia istan, though now the languages of the northern states are all Indo-European. Or were they the Aryans, ...

Box 5.2 “A Most Curious Object”: Indus Valley Seals Above are four of the more than 2,000 seals found in the Indus Valley. Most ...

156 Part III: South Asia trade. If it was language, was that language an early form of Dravidian, or of Sanskrit, or of some oth ...

Chapter 5 India 157 ing out of the cities and maintaining water and sewage systems. What seems most powerful, in IVC, is not mon ...

Indus Valley Civilization (2500–1500 B.C.E.). [top] Exca- vated ruins of Mohenjo Daro, with the later Buddhist stupa on the cita ...

Chapter 5 India 159 includes Greek, Latin, and most European languages, including English (see chapter 2). The Aryans, like the ...

160 Part III: South Asia of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, as well as new religious ideas in the Upanishads. Kashi was the ea ...

Box 5.3 Two Models for Kings in the Ramayana and Mahabharata Rama’s story is told and retold in hundreds of versions throughout ...

A text that has such life, age after age, is certainly a many-stranded thing; each gen- eration and class brings its own preoccu ...

Chapter 5 India 163 Clearly, there was another vast population in these regions who were not Indo- Europeans (i.e., Aryans), who ...

164 Part III: South Asia ber the concept of “Zomia” discussed in part II: the zones of resistance— mountains, jungles, and waste ...

Chapter 5 India 165 Teresa,” writes Doniger (2009:202). This work, the Arthashastra, advocates not only military might but “wit ...

166 Part III: South Asia Some of the stone pillars were topped with four lions facing the four direc- tions, with a wheel direct ...

Chapter 5 India 167 do the stars seem to move westward? Because the earth rotates on an axis, wrote Aryabhata in the fifth centu ...