Ancient India E-Book

Manish Singh Parmar

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

Ancient India is a comprehensive work that captures the historical strides from neolithic and chalcolithic times to Harappan civilization, Vedic times.

This book is the comparative study of Ancient India from 2500 BC - 500 AD.

This book is very informative and is must read for Students. Students and those interested in knowing about India's past do get to learn about varied cultures, lifestyle, and religion during this Glorious Period.

Leseprobe

Manish Singh Parmar

Ancient India

A Glimpse of Indias' Glorious Ancient Past

To India, our much-loved motherland, the ancient, the eternal and the ever-new.BookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

Indus Valley Civilisation- Overview

Indian History is broadly divide into Three Segments :- 

Ancient India - mainly about Harappan Civilisation, Vedic Period, Epic Age, and Rise and decline of Brahmanism.Medieval India - consists of Bharatvarsha Kingdoms, the Golden Age, and the Mighty Rajput Period.Modern India  - inform us about the Mughals, the British Raj, and India's Fight for Independence.

The History of Ancient India begins with the earliest Civilisation i.e. the Indus Valley Civilisation.

Indus Valley Civilisation (2500 BC - 1800 BC)

Appropriate name would be Harappan Civilisation, for Harappa was the 1st discovered site.River : IndusPeriod : 2500 BC - 1800 BC - according to Carbon-14 dating.Age : Chalcolithic Age/Bronze Age; Proto-Historic Period.Area : Spread over Sindh, Baluchistan, Punjab, Haryana, Rajputana, Gujratra, & U.P.Capital Cities : Harappa, Mohenjodaro. Port Cities : Lothal, Utkagendor, Allahdino, Balakot, Kuntasi.

According to Upinder Singh, "The original homeland of the Indo-Europeans and Indo-Aryans is the subject of continuing debate among philologists, linguists, historians, archaeologists and others. The dominant view is that the Indo-Aryams came to the subcontinent as immigrants. Another view, advocated mainly by some Indian scholars, is that they were indigenous to the subcontinent."

The knowledge about the Aryans comes mostly from the Rigveda-samhita, i. e. the oldest layer of the Vedas, which was composed c. 1500–1200 BCE. They brought with them their distinctive religious traditions and practices. The Vedic beliefs and practices of the pre-classical era were closely related to the hypothesised Proto-Indo-European religion, and the Indo-Iranian religion. According to Anthony, the Old Indic religion probably emerged among Indo-European immigrants in the contact zone between the Zeravshan River (present-day Uzbekistan) and (present-day) Iran. It was "a syncretic mixture of old Central Asian and new Indo-European elements", which borrowed "distinctive religious beliefs and practices" from the Bactria–Margiana Culture.