CONTENTS

  

The Dawn of Indian Civilization (upto c.600 BC)

List of Illustrations

Table of Transliteration

Preface

Contributors

General Introduction
D.P. Chattopadhyaya

Introduction
G.C. Pande 

SECTION I
HISTORIOGRAPHY OF ANCIENT INDIA

1.Source of Ancient Indian History
V.C. Srivastava 

2.Puranic Historiography of the Vedic Age
S.N. Roy 

SECTION II
GEOGRAPHY AND ETHNOGRAPHY

3.Physical Features of India
Indra Pal 

4.Human Geography of India
Indra Pal 

5.Approaches to Indian Ethnography
Badri Narayan Tiwari

SECTION III
PREHISTORY, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL EVOLUTION

6.A Brief Note on Indian Stone Age Archaeology
V.D. Mishra

7.Prehistoric Technology
Prakash Sinha 

8.The Emergence of Culture in the Vindhya-Ganga Region with Special Reference to Old Stone Age
Radha Kant Verma 

9.Cave paintings of Central India
Sushila Pant

10.Agriculture, Domestication of Animals, Ceramic and Other Industries in Prehistoric India: Mesolithic and Neolithic
V.D. Mishra

SECTION IV

PROTO-HISTORY (HARAPPAN AND CHALCOLITHIC CULTURES)

11.The Indus-Saraswati Civilization: Beginnings and Developments
S.P. Gupta 

12.Religious and Burial Practices of Harappans: Indian Evidence
Jagat Pati Joshi 

13.Harappans and the Rgveda: Points of Convergence
R.S. Bisht 

14.Decline  and Legacy of the phase of Indus Civilization
B.B. Lal 

15. Chalcolithic Cultures and Technologies in India
D.P.Agrawal 

16.Early Iron Technology and Its Socio-Economic Impact
Vibha Tripathi 

17.Rise of Cultures in Eastern India
Purushottam Singh 

18.Material Culture of  South India as Revealed in Archaeological Excavations
K.V. Raman 

SECTION V
THE VEDAS, VEDIC SOCIETY AND IDEAS

19.The Vedas: Their Authors and Significance
G.C. Pande

20.Vedic Society
Sibesh Bhattacharya 

21.Vedic Rituals
Kishore Nath Jha 

22.Vedic and Upanisadic Philosophy
Arvind Sharma 

23.Astronomy and its Role in Vedic Culture
Subhash Kak 

SECTION VI
FOUNDATIONS AND BEGINNINGS OF SYSTEMATIC SCIENCE
 

24.Vedic Technology
Prem Sagar Chaturvedi 

25.Foundations of Indian Mathematics and Geometrical Ideas in the Sulbha Sutras
S.A. Paramhans 

26.Vedanga Astronomy
S.N. Jha 

27.Development of Ayurveda from Antiquity to AD 300
P.V. Sharma 

28. Panini, Katyayana and Patanjali: An Overview of Sanskrit Grammatical Tradition
Rama Nath Sharma 

Bibliography 

Index

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