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ISBN-10: 0195639219 | ISBN-13: 978-0195639216 | Publication Date: July 1999

This book, edited by the well-known historian A. L. Basham, presents a comprehensive survey of Indian culture, covering such aspects as religion, philosophy, social organization, literature, art. architecture, music and science. It includes a special section dealing with the influence of Indian civilization on the rest of the world, as well as details of the political history of the region to provide a chronological framework for the non-specialist. Contributors include such eminent scholars as Radhakrishnan, Burrow, Das, and Spear.

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Paperback: 585 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press (July 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0195639219
ISBN-13: 978-0195639216
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MORE than 4,000 years ago there flourished in the north-western parts of the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent a civilization which, deriving its name from the main river of the region, is known as the Indus civilization. Read the first page

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South-East Asia, Central Asia, Shah Jahan, Ram Mohan, Mahatma Gandhi, Sayyid Ahmad Khan, Mughal Empire, Middle Indo-Aryan, Muslim League, East India Company, Indian National Congress, New York, Shah Jah�n, Uttar Pradesh, Asia Minor, Red Sea, Max Muller, Middle East, New Delhi, Rig Veda, University of Calcutta, Abu'l Fazl, Amir Khusrau, Bay of Bengal, Chandra Gupta

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