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245			_aThe Wonder that was India : _bA survey of the history and culture of the indian sub-continent before the coming of the Muslims/ _cA. L. Basham
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505			_aFrontmatter Preface page vii List of Illustrations page xiii Line Drawings and Maps page xvii Chronology of Pre-Muslim India page xix Pronunciation page xxi I. INTRODUCTION: India and her Ancient Culture page 1 The Land of India The Discovery of Ancient India The Glory of Ancient India II. PREHISTORY: The Harappa Culture and the Aryans page 10 Primitive Man in India The First Villages The Harappa City Culture The End of the Indus Cities Indo-Europeans and Aryans The Aryans in India: The Proto-historic Period The Culture of the Rg Veda The Later Vedic Age III. HISTORY: Ancient and Medieval Empires page 44 Sources of History The Age of the Buddha Alexander and the Mauryas The Age of Invasions The Guptas and Harsa The Middle Ages in the North The Middle Ages in the Peninsula IV. THE STATE: Political Life and Thought page 79 Sources Kingship The Royal Function Quasi-Feudalism Oligarchies and Republics Councillors and Officials Local Administration Village Administration Public Finance Legal Literature The Basis of Law Crime Administration of Justice Punishment The Secret Service Hindu Militarism Military Organization and Technique V. SOCIETY: Class, Family and Individual page 137 Laws of Class and Stage of Life The Four Great Classes Untouchables "Confusion of Class" Caste Slavery Gotra and Pravara The Family The Four Stages of Life The Child Initiation Education Marriage Sexual Relations Divorce Polygamy Old Age and Death Women Prostitution Widows VI. EVERYDAY LIFE: The Daily Round in City and Village page 189 The Village Agriculture and Stockbreeding The Wild Tribes The Town The Man About Town Amusements Clothes and Ornaments Food and Drink Economic Life Guilds Technical Achievement Trade and Finance Caravans and Trade-routes Sea Trade and Overseas Contacts VII. RELIGION: Cults, Doctrines and Metaphysics page 232 I. The Religion of the Veda Gods of the Rg Veda Sacrifice New Developments of Doctrine Asceticism Speculation and Gnosis Ethics of the Upanisads II. Buddhism The Buddha The Growth of Buddhism The Lesser Vehicle The Evolution of the Great Vehicle The Great Vehicle The Vehicle of the Thunderbolt The Buddhist Order Buddhist Ethics and Morality III. Jainism and Other Unorthodox Sects Jainism The Ajivikas Scepticism and Materialism IV. Hinduism Development and Literature Visnu Siva The Relation of Visnu and Siva The Mother Goddess Lesser Gods Demigods and Spirits Cosmogony The Soul, Karma and Samsara The Six Systems of Salvation Theism and Devotion Hindu Rites and Ceremonies Hindu Ethics V. Non-Indian Religions VIII. THE ARTS: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Music and The Dance page 346 The Spirit of Indian Art Early Architecture The Stupa Cave Temples Temples Sculpture Terracottas Metal Sculpture and Engraving Painting Minor Arts Music The Dance IX. LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE page 386 I. Language Sanskrit Prakrits and Pali Dravidian Languages Writing II. Literature Vedic Literature Epic Literature Classical Sanskrit Poetry Narrative Poetry The Drama Sanskrit Prose Literature Pali Literature Prakrit Literature Tamil Literature Folk Poetry X. EPILOGUE: The Heritage of India page 479 The Impact of the West The World's Debt to India APPENDICES I. Cosmology and Geography page 488 II. Astronomy page 489 III. The Calendar page 492 IV. Mathematics page 495 V. Physics and Chemistry page 496 VI. Physiology and Medicine page 498 VII. Logic and Epistemology page 501 VIII. Weights and Measures page 503 IX. Coinage page 504 X. The Alphabet and its Pronunciation page 506 XI. Prosody page 508 XII. The Gypsies page 512 BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES page 516 INDEX AND GLOSSARY page 541 Reviews JAOS: 88.2 (Apr. - Jun. 1968): 370 JAS: 16.3 (May 1957): 459-462 AHR: 61.4 (Jul. 1956): 945-946 BSOAS: 17.2 (1955): 402-403 Catalog record 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. Author Basham, A. L. (Arthur Llewellyn) Extent 600dpi TIFF G4 page images E-Distribution Information MPublishing, University of Michigan Library Ann Arbor, Michigan Permission must be received for any subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please contact info@hebook.org for more information. 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. Basham, A. L. (Arthur Llewellyn) New York: Grove, 1959. URL http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.02419.0001.001 Subject Headings • India -- Civilization -- To 1200 • India -- History -- To 324 B.C • India -- History -- 324 B.C.-1000 A.D Notes Originally published: London : Sidgwick and Jackson, 1954. Electronic access restricted; authentication may be required Encoding Description Project Description Header created via MARC-to-XML-to-TEI transformation on 2016-11-18 Editorial Declaration 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. 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