A history of India

著者

• Spear, Thomas George Percival
• Thapar, Romila

書誌事項

A history of India

Romila Thaper

（Pelican books, A769, 770）

Penguin Books, 1990

• v. 1
• v. 2

注記

Includes bibliography

Vol. 1 by Romila Thapar

Vol. 2 by Percival Spear

内容説明・目次

内容説明

A history of India upto 1300 AD introducing the beginnings of India's cultural dynamics

目次

• Acknowledgements Preface 1. The Antecedents The discovery of India
• changing approaches to Indian history
• the archaeological background 2. The Impact of Aryan Culture Sources of evidence
• The political organizations of the Aryan tribes
• caste and other social institutions
• Vedic relgion 3. Republics and Kingdoms c. 600-321 B.C. Evolving political patterns
• the rise of the kingdom of Magadha
• the rule of the Nandas
• North-western India and contacts with Persia
• the growth of towns
• the rise of heterodox sects
• Jainism and Buddhism 4. The Emergence of Empire 321-185 B.C. The Mauryan kings
• Mauryan contacts with neighbouring states
• society and economic activity
• Mauryan administration
• Ashoka and his policy of Dhamma
• the decline of the Mauryan empire 5. The Disintegration of Empire c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 300 The political fragmentation of the sub-continent: the Shunga dynasty, King Kharavela of Kalinga, The Indo-Greek kings, The Shakas, The Kushanas, The Satavhana dynasty, South Indian Kingdoms
• trade routes and communications 6. The Rise of the Mercantile Community c. 200 B.C.-A.D.300 Guilds
• Roman trade with south India
• interation of Indian and Hellenic ideas in northern India
• India's contacts with China and south-east Asia
• changes in society
• education and literature
• Buddhist art and architecture
• Mahayana Buddhism
• developments in Hinduism
• the coming of Christianity 7. The Evolution of the "Classical" Pattern c. A.D. 300-700 The rule of the Guptas
• Hun invasions
• some post-Gupta dynasties
• the reign of Harsha
• changing agrarian relations
• trade
• the pattern of living
• education and learning
• Hindu art and architecture
• development in Buddhism
• changes in Hinduism
• philosophical schools
• Indian contacts with China and south-east Asia 8. Conflict in the Southern Kingdoms c. A.D. 500-900 The Chalukya, Pallava, and Pandya conflicts
• political organization and administration
• the Agrarian system
• the status of the brahman
• the philosophy of Shankara
• the growth of Tamil literature
• the Tamil devotional cult
• mural painting in the Deccan
• temple architecture 9. The South in the Ascendant c. A.D. 900-1300 The rise of the Cholas
• Chola administration
• the village in the Chola economy
• trade
• the role of the temple in Chola society
• the development of the languages of the peninsula
• popular cults and sects
• the philosophy of Ramanuja and Madhva
• architecture and sculpture 10. The Beginnings of Regional States in Northern India c. A.D. 700-1200 Political struggle between the Rashtrakutas, Pratiharas, and Palas
• the arrival of the Arabs in Sind
• rise of new kingdoms
• growth of Raiput power
• campaigns of Mahmud of Ghazni
• the Afghan army
• Muhammad Ghuri 11. Feudalism in the Regional States c. A.D. 800-1200 Beginnings of regional loyalty
• emerging pattern of agrarian relations
• social structure
• literature in Sanskrit and in the newly developing languages
• temples and sculpture
• changes in Hinduism, the devotional cult, and the Tantric sects
• decline of Buddhism
• the arrival of the Sufis 12. The Re-alignment of Regional Kingdoms c. A.D. 1200-1526 Source material on the Delhi Sultanate
• the Slave dynasty and the Khalji dynasty
• political organization
• the Tughluq dynasty
• relations between the rulers and the ruled
• the Sayyid and Lodi dynasties
• the kingdoms of Gujarat, Mewar, Marwar, and Bengal 13. Assimilation on Trial c. A.D. 1200-1526 Trends in the impact of Islam on India
• balance of power between king and theologian
• administrative structure of the Sultanate
• the economy
• the social framework
• religious expression as seen in the Bhakti movement and the Sufis
• new languages and literatures
• miniature painting
• Islamic architecture 14. The South Conforms c. A.D. 1300-1526>/b> The rise of the Vijayanagara and Bahmani kingdoms in the Deccan
• changes in the socio-economic background
• trade
• religion Chronological table Glossary References to quotations General bibliography Bibliographical note on sources Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA42338470
• ISBN:
  • 0140138358
  • 0140138366
• LCCN: 66031497
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Harmondsworth, Middlesex
• ページ数/冊数: 2 v.
• 大きさ: 19 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : DS436.T37
  • DC : 954
• 件名:
  • LCSH : India -- History
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA00221954