From Harappa to Hastinapura : a study of the earliest South Asian city and civilization

Author(s)

• Eltsov, Piotr Andreevich

Bibliographic Information

From Harappa to Hastinapura : a study of the earliest South Asian city and civilization

Piotr Andreevich Eltsov

（American School of Prehistoric Research monograph series / series editors, C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, David Pilbeam, Ofer Bar-Yosef）

Brill, 2008

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-237) and index

Contents of Works

• From historical agents to structure: a new method for the study of ancient South Asia
• The chimera of the city: from Saint Augustine to Doxiades and to ancient Indian literature
• The idea of the city in the Ganges civilization
• The idea of the city in the Harappan/Indus civilization
• The idea of civilization: from Voltaire to Braudel and to the Sanskrit Puranas
• The idea of the ancient Indian civilization: a framework of enquiry
• Postscript: On theory and politics
• Critical editions of the quoted Sanskrit and Pāli texts

Details

• NCID: BB01373682
• ISBN:
  • 9789004160606
• LCCN: 2007018450
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Boston
• Pages/Volumes: xxxi, 240 p.
• Size: 27 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DS339
  • DC22 : 934
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : South Asia -- Civilization
  • LCSH : Extinct cities -- South Asia
  • LCSH : South Asia -- Antiquities
  • LCSH : Sanskrit literature -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Pali literature -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : South Asia -- Historiography
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA67800776