India: A History. Revised and Updated (111 page)

4
Braudel, F. (trans. Maine, R.),
A History of Civilisations,
Penguin, New York, 1993, p.217

CHAPTER 1

1
Adapted from the
Satapatha Brahmana
as rendered by A.D. Pusalkar, in HCIP, vol.1, ‘The Vedic Age’, pp.271–2

2
Thapar, R., ‘The Study of Society in Ancient India’, in
Ancient Indian Social History,
p.212

3
Bhandarkar, D.R., quoted in Possehl, G. (ed.),
Harappan Civilisation,
p.405

4
Allchin, B. and F.R.,
Birth of Indian Civilisation,
p.131

5
Ibid,
p.132

6
Ghosh, A.,
The City in Early Historical India,
p.83

7
Lal, B.B., ‘The Indus Civilisation’, in Basham, A.L. (ed.),
A Cultural History of India,
p.16

8
Pusalker, A.D., in HCIP, vol.1, ‘The Vedic Age’, p.181

9
Ratnagar, S.,
Enquiries into the Political Organisation of Harappan Society,
p.152

10
Ratnagar, S.,
Encounters: The Westerly Trade of the Harappan Civilisation,
p.247

CHAPTER 2

1
Thapar, R., ‘The Image of the Barbarian in Early India’, repr. in
Ancient Indian Social History,
p.140

2
Thapar, R., ‘The Study of Society in Ancient India’, repr. in
ibid,
p.190

3
Asiatick Researches,
vol.1, 1788, quoted in Keay, John,
India Discovered,
p.30

4
Muller, F. Max,
Chips from a German Workshop,
vol.1, 1867, p.63

5
Wheeler, R.E. Mortimer, ‘Harappan Chronology and the
Rig Veda’,
repr. in Possehl, G.L. (ed.),
Ancient Cities of the Indus,
p.291

6
Dales, G.F., ‘The Mythical Massacre at Mohenjo Daro’, repr. in
ibid,
p.293

7
Elphinstone, Mountstuart,
The HistoryOf India
etc., p.54

8
Majumdar, R.C.,
Ancient India,
p.30

9
Ghosh, B.K., ‘Language and Literature’, in ‘The Age of the Rik-Samhita’, bk v in HCIP, vol.1, ‘The Vedic Age’, pp.347-8

10
Rig Veda, Mandala I, 175

CHAPTER 3

1
Kosambi, D.D.,
The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline,
p.89

2
Kosambi, D.D.,
An Introduction to the Study of Indian History,
p.2

3
Ibid,
p.146

4
Ghosh, A.,
The City in Early Historical India,
p.34

5
Thapar, R.,
From Lineage to State,
pp.16-17

6
Quoted in Meyer, J.T.,
Sexual Life in Ancient India

7
Thapar, R.,
From Lineage to State,
p.22

8
Ibid,
p.134

9
Sharma, J.P.,
Republics in Ancient India,
p.9

10
Thapar, R.,
From Lineage to State,
p.73

11
Ghosh A.,
The City in Early Historical India,
p.64

12
Thapar, R.,
From Lineage to State,
pp.102-3

13
Rig Veda,
X, 90

14
Thapar, R.,
From Lineage to State,
p.170

15
Spelman, J.W.,
Political Theory of Ancient India,
p.69

CHAPTER 4

1
Mountbatten, quoted in Collins, L. and Lapierre, D.,
Mountbatten and the Partition of India,
p.70

2
Lane Fox, R.,
Alexander the Great,
p.56

3
Marshall, J.,
Taxila,
vol.1, p.12

4
Basham, A.L.,
The Wonder that was India,
p.390

5
Bechert, H., in
When did the Buddha Live?: The Controversy of the Dating ofthe Historical Buddha
(ed. Bechert, H.), p.286

6
Sharma, J.P.,
The Republics in Ancient India,
pp.123-4

7
Mookerji, R.K., in HCIP, vol.2, ‘The Age of Imperial Unity’, p.25

8
Thapar, R.,
A History of India,
vol.1, p.59

9
Majumdar, R.C.,
Ancient India,
p.101

10
Lane Fox, R.,
Alexander the Great,
p.331

11
Mookerji, R.K., in HCIP, vol.2, ‘The Age of Imperial Unity’, p.44

CHAPTER 5

1
Asiatick Researches,
1793, quoted in Keay, J.,
India Discovered,
p.35

2
Wells, H.G.,
A Short History of the World,
1922, repr. Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1946, p.114

3
Kautilya (ed. and trans. Rangarajan, L.N. etc.),
The Arthasastra,
p.21

4
Trautmann, Thomas R.,
Kautilya and the Arthasastra,
p.186

5
Fergusson, J.,
A History of Indian Architecture,
London, 1897

6
Yazdani, G.,
The Early History of the Deccan,
vol.1, p.69

7
Kosambi, D.D.,
An Introduction to the Study of Indian History …,
1975, preface and pp.17–53

8
Tod, James,
Travels in Western India,
W.H. Allen, London, 1839, p.76

9
Prinsep, James, in
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,
vol.8, 1838, quoted in Keay, John,
India Discovered,
p.53

10
As trans. in Thapar, Romila,
Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas,
p.256

11
Mookerji, R.K., ‘Asoka the Great’, in HCIP, vol.2, ‘The Age of Imperial Unity’, p.74

12
Wells, H.G.,
A Short History of the World,
1922, repr. Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1946, p.115

13
Kautilya (ed. and trans. Rangarajan, L.N. etc.),
The Arthasastra,
p.741

14
McCrindle, J.W.,
Ancient India as Described by Megasthenes and Arrian,
Trubner, London, 1877, p.84

15
As trans. in Thapar, Romila,
Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas,
p.254

16
Ibid,
p.266

17
Thapar, R., ‘Asokan India and the Gupta Age’, in Basham, A.L. (ed.),
A Cultural History of India,
p.42

CHAPTER 6

1
Narain, A.K.,
The Indo-Greeks,
p.viii

2
Kulke, H. and Rothermund, D.,
A History of India,
p.83

3
S[h]astri, K.A. Nilakantha,
A Comprehensive History of India,
vol.2,
The Mauryas and the Satavahanas,
p.102

4
Thapar, Romila,
A History of India,
vol.1, p.93

5
Narain, A.K.,
The Indo-Greeks,
p.11

6
Harle, J.C.,
The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent,
p.70

7 Bagchi, P.C.,
India and China: A Thousand Years of Cultural Relations,
p.10

8
Dani, A.H.,
Human Records on the Karakoram Highway,
p.49

9
Ibid,
p.77

10
S[h]astri, K.A. Nilakantha,
A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vjayanagar,
1955, p.130

11
Hart, George L., ‘Ancient Tamil Literature: Its Scholarly Past and Future’, in Stein, Burton (ed.),
Essay son South India,
pp.41-2

12
Maloney, Clarence, ‘Archaeology in South India: Accomplishments and Prospects’, in
ibid,
p.24

13
Wheeler, R.E. Mortimer,
Rome Beyond the Imperial Frontiers,
p.147

14
Glover, I.C.,
Early Trade Relations Between India and South East Asia,
pp.47-8

15
Coedes, G.,
The Indianised States of Southeast Asia,
p.18

16
Quoted in Sarkar, H.B.,
Cultural Relations Between India and Southeast Asian Countries,
p.87

17
Quoted in Coedes, G.,
The Indianised States
etc., p.37

18
Ray, Himanshu Prabha,
Monastery and Guild: Commerce Under theSatavahanas,
p.108

CHAPTER 7

1
Williams, L.F. Rushbrook (ed.),
A Handbook for Travellers in India,Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and SriLanka,
p.278

2
Banerjea, J.N., ‘The Satraps of Northern and Western India’, in S[h]astri, K.A. Nilakantha (ed.),
A Comprehensive History of India,
vol.2, p.283

3
Ghoshal, U.N., ‘Political Organisation (Post-Mauryan)’, in
ibid,
p.350

4
Kosambi, D.D.,
An Introduction to the Study of Indian History,
p.285

5
Ibid,
p.279

6
Ibid,
p.286

7
Bagchi, P.C. and Raghavan, V., ‘Language and Literature’, in S[h]astri, K.A. Nilakantha (ed),
A Comprehensive History of India,
vol.2, pp.632-3

8
Smith, V.A.,
The Early History of India,
p.266

9
Majumdar, R.C., ‘The Rise of the Guptas’, in HCIP, vol.3, ‘The Classical Age’, p.4

10
Fleet, J.F.,
Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum,
vol.3, ‘Inscriptions of the Early Gupta Kings and their Successors’, pp.10—17

11
Smith, V.A.,
The Early History of India,
p.274

12
Kosambi, D.D.,
An Introduction
etc., p.313

13
Mookerji, R.K.,
The Gupta Empire,
p.38

14
Inden, R.,
Imagining India,
pp.239-40

15
See Williams, J.G.,
The Art of Gupta India,
p.25

16
Beal, S., in H[i]euen Tsang,
Si-Yu-Ki, Buddhist Records of the Western World,
vol.1, pp.xxxvii—xxxviii

17
Ibid,
p.lvii

18
Altekar, A.S., ‘Religion and Philosophy’, in
The Vakataka-GuptaAge
(ed. Majumdar, R.C. and Altekar, A.S.), p.341

19
Devahuti, D.,
Harsha, A Political Study,
pp.114-15

20
Quoted in Keay, J.,
India Discovered,
pp.151-2

21
Williams, J.G.,
The Art of Gupta India,
p.3

22
Harle, J.C.,
Art and Architecture
etc., p.87

23
Basham. A.L.,
The Wonder that was India,
p.442

24
Keith, A.B.,
A History of Sanskrit Literature,
p.94

25
Kosambi, D.D.,
An Introduction
etc., p.284

CHAPTER 8

1
Kosambi, D.D.,
The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India,
p.191

2
Gaur, A.,
Indian Charters on Copper Plates in the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Books,
p.viii

3
Fleet, J.F.,
Corpus Inscriptionum Indicum
etc., p.169

4
H[i]euen Tsang (trans. Beal, S.),
Si-Yu-Ki, Buddhist Records
etc., vol.1, pp.120, 137

5
See Sudhir Ranjan Das, ‘Types of Land in North-Eastern India (from the Fourth Century to the Seventh Century)’, in Chattopadhyaya, B. (ed.)
Essays in Ancient Indian Economic History,
pp.62—3

6
Basham, A.L.,
The Wonder that was India,
p.449