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The Wonder that was India : (Record no. 7381)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number	978-93-89109-34-4
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Edition number	23rd.ed.
Classification number	913.34
Item number	BAS
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Basham, A.L
Dates associated with a name	2019
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	The Wonder that was India :
Remainder of title	A survey of the history and culture of the indian sub-continent before the coming of the Muslims/
Statement of responsibility, etc.	A. L. Basham
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement	3rd.ed.
Remainder of edition statement	2019
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc.	India :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc.	Picador India :
Date of publication, distribution, etc.	2019
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent	vii,572p.vl-1
Other physical details	Soft Bound
Dimensions	16x24cm.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE	Frontmatter<br/>Preface page vii<br/>List of Illustrations page xiii<br/>Line Drawings and Maps page xvii<br/>Chronology of Pre-Muslim India page xix<br/>Pronunciation page xxi<br/>I. INTRODUCTION: India and her Ancient Culture page 1<br/>The Land of India<br/>The Discovery of Ancient India<br/>The Glory of Ancient India<br/>II. PREHISTORY: The Harappa Culture and the Aryans page 10<br/>Primitive Man in India<br/>The First Villages<br/>The Harappa City Culture<br/>The End of the Indus Cities<br/>Indo-Europeans and Aryans<br/>The Aryans in India: The Proto-historic Period<br/>The Culture of the Rg Veda<br/>The Later Vedic Age<br/>III. HISTORY: Ancient and Medieval Empires page 44<br/>Sources of History<br/>The Age of the Buddha<br/>Alexander and the Mauryas<br/>The Age of Invasions<br/>The Guptas and Harsa<br/>The Middle Ages in the North<br/>The Middle Ages in the Peninsula<br/>IV. THE STATE: Political Life and Thought page 79<br/>Sources<br/>Kingship<br/>The Royal Function<br/>Quasi-Feudalism<br/>Oligarchies and Republics<br/>Councillors and Officials<br/>Local Administration<br/>Village Administration<br/>Public Finance<br/>Legal Literature<br/>The Basis of Law<br/>Crime<br/>Administration of Justice<br/>Punishment<br/>The Secret Service<br/>Hindu Militarism<br/>Military Organization and Technique<br/>V. SOCIETY: Class, Family and Individual page 137<br/>Laws of Class and Stage of Life<br/>The Four Great Classes<br/>Untouchables<br/>"Confusion of Class"<br/>Caste<br/>Slavery<br/>Gotra and Pravara<br/>The Family<br/>The Four Stages of Life<br/>The Child<br/>Initiation<br/>Education<br/>Marriage<br/>Sexual Relations<br/>Divorce<br/>Polygamy<br/>Old Age and Death<br/>Women<br/>Prostitution<br/>Widows<br/>VI. EVERYDAY LIFE: The Daily Round in City and Village page 189<br/>The Village<br/>Agriculture and Stockbreeding<br/>The Wild Tribes<br/>The Town<br/>The Man About Town<br/>Amusements<br/>Clothes and Ornaments<br/>Food and Drink<br/>Economic Life<br/>Guilds<br/>Technical Achievement<br/>Trade and Finance<br/>Caravans and Trade-routes<br/>Sea Trade and Overseas Contacts<br/>VII. RELIGION: Cults, Doctrines and Metaphysics page 232<br/>I. The Religion of the Veda<br/>Gods of the Rg Veda<br/>Sacrifice<br/>New Developments of Doctrine<br/>Asceticism<br/>Speculation and Gnosis<br/>Ethics of the Upanisads<br/>II. Buddhism<br/>The Buddha<br/>The Growth of Buddhism<br/>The Lesser Vehicle<br/>The Evolution of the Great Vehicle<br/>The Great Vehicle<br/>The Vehicle of the Thunderbolt<br/>The Buddhist Order<br/>Buddhist Ethics and Morality<br/>III. Jainism and Other Unorthodox Sects<br/>Jainism<br/>The Ajivikas<br/>Scepticism and Materialism<br/>IV. Hinduism<br/>Development and Literature<br/>Visnu<br/>Siva<br/>The Relation of Visnu and Siva<br/>The Mother Goddess<br/>Lesser Gods<br/>Demigods and Spirits<br/>Cosmogony<br/>The Soul, Karma and Samsara<br/>The Six Systems of Salvation<br/>Theism and Devotion<br/>Hindu Rites and Ceremonies<br/>Hindu Ethics<br/>V. Non-Indian Religions<br/>VIII. THE ARTS: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Music and The Dance page 346<br/>The Spirit of Indian Art<br/>Early Architecture<br/>The Stupa<br/>Cave Temples<br/>Temples<br/>Sculpture<br/>Terracottas<br/>Metal Sculpture and Engraving<br/>Painting<br/>Minor Arts<br/>Music<br/>The Dance<br/>IX. LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE page 386<br/>I. Language<br/>Sanskrit<br/>Prakrits and Pali<br/>Dravidian Languages<br/>Writing<br/>II. Literature<br/>Vedic Literature<br/>Epic Literature<br/>Classical Sanskrit Poetry<br/>Narrative Poetry<br/>The Drama<br/>Sanskrit Prose Literature<br/>Pali Literature<br/>Prakrit Literature<br/>Tamil Literature<br/>Folk Poetry<br/>X. EPILOGUE: The Heritage of India page 479<br/>The Impact of the West<br/>The World's Debt to India<br/>APPENDICES<br/>I. Cosmology and Geography page 488<br/>II. Astronomy page 489<br/>III. The Calendar page 492<br/>IV. Mathematics page 495<br/>V. Physics and Chemistry page 496<br/>VI. Physiology and Medicine page 498<br/>VII. Logic and Epistemology page 501<br/>VIII. Weights and Measures page 503<br/>IX. Coinage page 504<br/>X. The Alphabet and its Pronunciation page 506<br/>XI. Prosody page 508<br/>XII. The Gypsies page 512<br/>BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES page 516<br/>INDEX AND GLOSSARY page 541<br/>Reviews<br/>JAOS: 88.2 (Apr. - Jun. 1968): 370<br/>JAS: 16.3 (May 1957): 459-462<br/>AHR: 61.4 (Jul. 1956): 945-946<br/>BSOAS: 17.2 (1955): 402-403<br/>Catalog record<br/>Title The wonder that was India : a survey of the culture of the Indian sub-continent before the coming of the Muslims / by A.L. Basham.<br/>Author Basham, A. L. (Arthur Llewellyn)<br/>Extent 600dpi TIFF G4 page images<br/>E-Distribution Information MPublishing, University of Michigan Library<br/>Ann Arbor, Michigan<br/>Permission must be received for any subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please contact info@hebook.org for more information.<br/>Source Version The wonder that was India : a survey of the culture of the Indian sub-continent before the coming of the Muslims / by A.L. Basham. <br/>Basham, A. L. (Arthur Llewellyn)<br/>New York: Grove, 1959.<br/>URL http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.02419.0001.001<br/>Subject Headings • India -- Civilization -- To 1200<br/>• India -- History -- To 324 B.C<br/>• India -- History -- 324 B.C.-1000 A.D<br/>Notes Originally published: London : Sidgwick and Jackson, 1954.<br/>Electronic access restricted; authentication may be required<br/>Encoding Description <br/>Project Description<br/>Header created via MARC-to-XML-to-TEI transformation on 2016-11-18<br/><br/>Editorial Declaration<br/>This electronic text file was created by Optical Character Recognition (OCR). No corrections have been made to the OCR-ed text and no editing has been done to the content of the original document. Encoding has been done through automated and manual processes using the recommendations for Level 2 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines. Digital page images are linked to the text file.
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