#330185 Orientalistica

A Concise History of India.

Author
PublisherThames and Hudson.
Date of publ.
Details cm.17x24, pp.192, 182 illustraz. in bianco e nero, 4 mappe, brossura con copertina figurata a colori. Testo in inglese.
AbstractThe recovery of India's immense history owes much to Western and particularly British researches; yet attempts to compress it often concentrate on the brief Imperial period. This up-to-date survey treats the latter as merely the penuitimate chapter in a story that begins in the 3rd millennium BC with the Indus Valley civilization. The influx of pastoral nomads - first in a long series of invasions from the north established the Vedic religion, whose assimilation of popular cults and formalization in Sanskrit writing and social castes supplied the cohesion which subsequent events - the Moghul incursions, the British Empire, the rise of modern India - did little to change. The enduring distinctiveness of India, its often bewildering "diversity of unity", emerges as a product of geographical simplicity and great historical complexity.
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