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Lamotte, E., History of Indian Buddhism (Louvain, 1988)
Law, B. C., Historical Geography of Ancient India (Paris, 1954)
Meister, M. M. and Dhaky, M. A., Indian Temple Architecture (Delhi/Varanasi, 1983-)
Nilakanta Sastri, K. A., A History of South India, 4th edn (Madras, 1974)
Radhakrishnan, S., Indian Philosophy vols I and II (London, 1923-27)
Ray, N. R. et al., A Sourcebook of Indian Civilisation (Delhi, 2000)
Ray, P. C., A History of Hindu Chemistry, vols I and II (Calcutta, 1907-25)
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Salomon, R., Indian Epigraphy (Delhi, 1998)
Schwartzberg, J. E. (ed.), A Historical Atlas of South Asia, 2nd edn (Oxford, 1992)
Sharma, R. S., Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India, 3rd edn (Delhi, 1991)
Sharma, R. S. and Jha, D, N. (eds), Indian Society Historical Probings. Essays in memory of D. D. Kosambi (New Delhi, 1974)
Singh, R. L., India. A Regional Geography (Varanasi, 1971)
Sircar, D. C., Indian Epigraphy (Delhi, 1965)
Sircar, D. C., Epigraphical Glossary (Delhi, 1966)
Spate, O. H. K. and Learmonth, A. T. A., India and Pakistan, a General and Regional Geography, 4th edn (London, 1972)
Subbarao, B., The Personality of India, 2nd edn (Baroda, 1958)
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Thapar, R., Cultural Pasts (Delhi, 2000)
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Journals
There are many journals and periodical publications that carry articles on the history of India or data on sources discussed in this book. References to articles in the bibliographies would have made the bibliographies for each chapter unwieldy. Those consulted more frequently are included in the following:
Acta Orientalia
Ancient India (Bulletin of the Archaeological Survey of India)
Ancient Pakista
Annales
Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
Annual Report of Indian Epigraphy
Antiquity
Archaeology
Artibus Asiae
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
Burlington Magazine
Comparative Studies in Society and History
Contributions to Indian Sociology
Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum/CII
East and West
Epigraphia Carnatica
Epigraphia Indica
History and Culture of the Indian People, vols I-V
History of Religions
Hyderabad Archaeological Series
Indian Antiquary
Indian Archaeology – a Review
Indian Economic and Social History Review
Indian Historical Review
Indian Studies: Past and Present
Indo-Iranian Journal
Journal Asiatique
Journal of Asian Studies
Journal of Indian History
Journal of the American Oriental Society
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society
Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
Journal of the Epigraphical Society of India
Journal of the Numismatic Society of India
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Man and Environment
Man in India
Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India
Modern Asian Studies
Pakistan Archaeology
Proceedings of the Indian History Congress
Purana
Silk Road Art and Archaeology
Social Science Probings
South Asia Research
South Asian Archaeology
South Asian Studies
South Indian Inscriptions
Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities
Studies in History
Index
dy = dynasty r. = river
Abhinavagupta 473
Abhiras 411, 228
Acharanga-sutra 166, 167
adivasis 57
administrator’s histories 15-16
Afghan sultans 438
Afghans 435, 488
agrarian system in peninsular India 370-80
agriculture xxvii, 50-53, 74-5, 306, 446;
and location of land grants 449
Ahoms 418
Aihole 359-60
Ajanta 17-18, 267, 313-14
Ajatashatru xiv, 154-5
Ajivikas 165
Ajmer 48
Akbar 16
Alberuni xv, 429, 431, 432, 437-8;
Tahqiq-i-Hind 432
Alexander of Macedon xiv, 40;
and N-W India 156-60
al-Hind 38
Altekar, A. S. 16
Alvars 352, 355, 395
Amaravati 48, 268, 269
Amaru 311
Amitrochates/Amitraghata 178
Amoghavarsha xv, 334, 366, 408
Anandavardhana 473
Andal 352, 354
Annales School 27
Arabs xv, 332-3, 383, 405-7, 412, 425, 426, 440, 458, 461, 481, 482, 488
Aravalli Hills 42
archeology in India 69-70
architecture/architects xxix, 50, 263, 313-14
Arthashastra of Kautilya 52, 57, 184-5, 194, 199, 206, 236, 246, 248
Arya Samaj 15
Aryabhatta xv, 38, 99, 307, 471
Aryans 12-13, 14, 105
Aryavarta, geographical area 38
Ashoka xiv, 16, 163, 178-84, 222;
his edicts and inscriptions 179-83;
his dhamma 200-204
Ashtadhyayi of Panini 163
Ashvaghosha 225, 259;
Buddhacharita 225, 259;
his Vajrasuchi 259
Asiatic Society of Bengal 3
Assamese 470
astronomy (jyotishavedanga) 306-7, 309-10, 471
atavika rajas (forest chiefs) 422
Atisha and Tibetan Buddhism 482
Avesta 106, 107, 108
Ayannar (deity in Tamil-nadu) 400
Azes I xiv, 220
Baden-Powell, Robert 7
Ballala II 368
Bamiyan 268, 269, 321
Banabhatta: Harshacharita 56, 288, 303, 312, 394, 458, 468;
Kadambari 312
barley 51
Basavanna 484
Basham, A. L.: The Wonder That Was India 18
Beas r. 42, 111
Begram 40
Bengali 2, 470
Besnagar 270
Bhagavata sect (Puranic Hinduism) 260, 275, 350
bhakti, Bhakti movement 318-19, 350-56, 362, 444, 485
Bhamaha (literary critic) 312
Bhandarkar, R. G. 16
Bharata 311;
Natya-shastra 311, 312, 473
Bharatavarsha 39
Bharavi: Kiratarjuniya 311
Bharhut 263
Bhartrihari 311
Bharuch 145, 236
Bhasa: Svapnavasavadattam 259
Bhaskaracharya 471-2
Bhavabhuti: Malati-madhava 311
Bhimbetka 71, 74
Bhir Mound 145
Bhoja, king xv, 409, 411
Bilhana: Viramankadevacharita 468;
Chaurapanchashika 474
Bimbisara 152, 154;
the beginnings of an administrative system 152-3
Bindusara 178
Bloch, Marc 28
bodhisattva 271
Bohras 332
Bolan Pass 40
Bougle, Celestin 9
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sp; brahma kshatra status 418-19
brahmadeya donations 372-5, 378, 387-8, 389, 450
brahmans 120-21, 128, 260-61, 275, 281, 291, 323, 331-2, 336-8, 356-7, 399, 450, 453, 463, 469, 470
brahmanical learning 469
Brahmaputra r. 42, 42
brahmi script 11, 163
Braudel, Fernand 27
Brihadratha 204
Brihatpalayana 228
Buddha xiv, 149;
deification of 271;
as an avatara of Vishnu 329;
death of xiv
Buddha Maitreya 274, 277
Buddhacharita 225
Buddhism 1, 167-70, 260, 270-73, 277, 317, 318, 321, 356, 409, 410-11, 482, 488;
Hinayana 273;
Mahayana 273, 274;
Sarvastivada 273;
Tantric 481;
Theravada 273;
and Vaishnavism 482
Buddhist Council: Third xiv, 273;
Fourth 222, 273
Buddhist monasteries 472, 481, 482;
see also monasteries
Burunjis 418
Burzahom 89
caste xxiv-xxv, xxvii, xxix, 8, 9, 10, 14, 62-8, 122-5, 389-91, 462-6;
see also jatis
chaitya 67, 267, 268
chalcolithic cultures 79, 88-9
Chalukyas xv, 327, 328, 330-31, 333, 364, 367, 408
Champa 160, 145
Chanakya 184
Chandalas 154
Chandella dy 480
Chandra Gupta I xiv, 282-3
Chandra Gupta II xiv, 16, 285
Chandragupta, Maurya xiv, 156, 175-8
charita literature 394
Charaka 258, 471
Charvaka 165, 166
chaturanga (chess) 253
Chenab r. 42
Cheras 229, 232, 233, 327, 364, 368
Chidambaram 366
Childe, Gordon 74
Cholas 229, 232, 233, 327, 333, 334, 363-8, 370, 411
Cholamandalam 364
Christianity 3, 278-9
chronology of early Indian history xiii-xv
Chulavamsa 467
classicism of the Gupta period 280-82
climate 50-53
coins 161-2, 252-3, 299, 460-61
Colebrooke, Henry 3
colonial perception of Indian history xxiv-xxv, 1-6, 442
commercial exchange 457
communication 300-301
copper-smelting 143;
mining 299
Crusades 1, 7
cultural interactions 253-6;
with Greece and Rome 253-5;
with China 255
Cunningham, Alexander 11: The Ancient Geography of India 11
Cyrus xiv, 156
dakshinapatha 44
damaras (landowners of substance) 416
Dantidurga 333, 334, 408
Darius 157
Deccan, the 44, 326
Delhi Sultanate 18, 435, 438
Demetrius xiv, 214
devadasis 358, 391-2
Devapala 410
Devi-mahatmya 485
Devi worship 278, 485
dhamma of Ashoka 200-204
Dharma xxix, 131, 278
Dharmapala 410
Dharmashastra 3, 37, 246, 251, 260, 261-3, 278, 279, 300, 310, 466
Dharmasutras 164, 261
Dhillika, the first city of Delhi xv, 420
Dholavira 78, 82, 84, 85
Didda, Queen 416
Digambara (a Jaina sect) 166
Dipavamsa 467
Dorasamudra (core of Hoysala kingdom) 368
Dravidian languages 13
Durkheim, Emile 9
Dutt, R. C. 16
Dutthugamini of Sri Lanka 233
Dvayashraya-kavya 472
dynasties, genesis of 452
East India Company 2
edicts of Ashoka 179-81
education 257-8, 392-3;
formal and learning 306;
provided by Jainas, Buddhists and brahmanical institutions 344-5
Ekangas 416
Elephanta 313, 359
Elphinstone, Montstuart 7
Ellora 267, 313, 359
empire, concept of 174-5;
Maurya 175-208
epigraphic sources 11
eras, various 468-9
excavations, historical xx-xxi, 71ff
export and import of commodities 301
Fa Hsien, Fah Hien xiv, 289, 303
famines 302
Feudal Mode of Production 23-4, 443ff
feudalism 442, 444-5, 451-2
Finley Moses 28
Firdausi 431-2;
Shahnama 431-2
frontiers 47-8
Gahadavala dy 433
Gajapati dy 418
Ganapatideva (Kakatiya king) 367
gana-sanghas 137, 138, 146-50, 151, 283, 284
Gandak r. 42
Gandhara 142, 156, 417;
art 254, 268, 269
Gandhara Grave culture 89
Ganga dy 331, 418
Ganges r. 42, 49, 90
Gathasaptashati by Hala 259
Gautamiputra xiv, 227
gavunda, gauda (landholder in Karnataka) 378-9
German Romanticism 5
Ghaggar r. 42, 78, 111
Ghaghra r. 42
Ghantashala 268, 269
ghatikas 344, 349
Ghaznavids 427
Ghazni 426
Ghoshal, U. N. 16
Gibbon, Edward 2
Gita 278
Gobineau 13
‘Golden Age’, notion of 17, 21, 280
Gomal Pass 40
Gomati r. 42
Gondophares, Gundophernes 220
Gondwanaland 38
Gopala of Pala dynasty xv, 409-10
governance, theories of and administration xxvii
grantees 450-51, 455
grants of land of various kinds 291-6, 446, 454, 455;
to brahmans and temples 336-40, 371-2, 448;
see also brahmadeya
Great Game, the 41
Greco-Roman ideas and artefacts, impact of, in north India 253-4
guilds (shreni) 300, 463, 471
Gujarati 470
Gupta dy 282-8
Gupta era xiii
Hadda 268, 269, 320, 321
Haileybury College 7
Hakra r. 42;
Plain 78, 90
Halhead, Nathaniel 3
Haraxvati Plain 42
Harjaravarman 418
Harsha era viii, 469
Harshacharita (Banabhatta) 288
Harshavardhana xv, 287-9, 300
hatta (rural exchange centre) 458
Hellenistic Greeks 214-15;
see also Yavanas
Hemachandra 413, 461, 472
heptahindu 38
hero-stones 380, 384, 423-4
Herodotus 156-7
Himalayan foothills, small kingdoms in 413-14
Hindi 470
‘Hindu’
the term xxix, 275, 438, 439-40
Hindu community as defined today 438-9
Hindu Kush 39
Hindu Shahiya dy 417, 475
Hinduism 3, 275-8;
many changes introduced into 439;
various sects under 275-6;
see also Bhagavata sect;
Pasupata sect;
Puranic Hinduism;
Shaivism;
Vaishnavism;
Vedic Brahmanism
Hindutva 14, 15
historical change, theories about xxvi, 23, 442-8
historiography and Indian history xvii-xix, xxx
horse 85, 114;
import of and trade in 428-9, 457
Hoysala power xv, 364, 367-8
Hsüan Tsang/Xuan Zhuang xv, 11, 289, 303, 456
Hubert, H. 9
Hunas xiv, 40, 286-7
Hungsi 72
Hunza Valley 40
Ikshvakus 228, 327, 328, 329
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nbsp; Ilango Adigal: Silappadigaram 345
Indian civilization, culture, history: popular images of in European mind xxv, xxvii-xxviii;
sources of xix;
environmental factors in xxi;
significance of geography in xxi-xxii;
concept of ‘Golden’
and ‘Dark’
ages xxi;
the southern peninsula xxi;
colonial perception of 1-6, 442;
Orientalists and Utilitarians 2-7;
discovering India 9-11
Indian historians of early 20th c. 16-18
Indo-Aryan languages 13, 15, 40, 105-9
Indo-European 2, 105, 108
Indo-Gangetic Plain 21, 41-4
Indo-Gangetic watershed 42, 90
Indo-Greeks 40, 213-17, 223;
see also Yavanas
Indologists, Indology 11, 29
Indus civilization 14, 15, 18, 79;
cities of 79-88;
extension and trade links 80-82;
governing authority 83-4
Indus script xxiii, 84
inscriptions 163, 222;
see also under Ashoka
integrative polity, concept of 445-6
interest on money 459-60
iron technology 143-4;
mining 299
irrigation 52-3, 142-3, 246, 338
Islam 1, 413, 425, 438, 488
Islamic architecture 481
ivory work 299
Jaggeyapeta 269
Jaina libaries of manuscripts 473
Jaina literature 472-3
Jainism 1, 166-7, 274, 317, 356, 482, 484, 486-7;
Digambara 166, 274;
Shvetambara 166, 274;
tradition of literacy and experience in financial enterprises 461
Jambudvipa 38
janapada 138
Jatakas 17, 102
jatis 9, 63-7, 123, 124, 125, 261, 272, 276;
transition from jana to 422;
see also caste
Jayadeva: Gita Govinda 473, 474
Jayaswal, K. P. 16
Jews (traders) 369, 425
Jhelum r. 42, 415
Jones, Richard 7
Jones, William 3
Joseph Rabban 369
Kabul 40
Kabul Valley 417
Kadambas 328
Kadphises, Kujula and Wema 221
Kaivarta revolt 410
Kakatiyas 364, 367
Kalabhras 327
Kalachuri-Chedi dy 228
Kalhana: Rajatarangini xv, 1, 34, 287, 395, 415-17, 428, 468
Kali Yuga (Age) 99, 443-4
Kalidasa 210, 311;
Malavika-agnimitram 210;
Meghaduta 311;
Abhijnana-shakuntala 311
Kalinga 211
Kalpasutra 166
Kamarupa 417-18
Kamasutra 302
Kamban: Ramayana 393
Kamboja 156
Kanauj 406-12, 433, 456
Kanchipuram 344, 359
Kanishka xiv, 221-2
Kannada 345, 396
Kanvas 210
Kapalikas 485
Karakoram highway 41
Karle 267
karma 130-31, 169, 278
Kashi 145, 151, 152, 155
Kashmir 415-17
Kathasaritsagara (Somadeva) 473
Kaushambi 49, 53, 145, 160, 263
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