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The Penguin History of Early India

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by Romila Thapar


  Jha, D. N., Ancient India (Delhi, 1998)

  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)

  Raychaudhuri, H., Political History of Ancient India, commentary B. N. Mukherjee, rev. edn (Delhi, 1996)

  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)

  Thapar, R. (ed.), Recent Perspectives of Early Indian History, 2nd edn (Bombay, 1998)

  Thapar, R., Cultural Pasts (Delhi, 2000)

  Winternitz, M., A History of Indian Literature (Calcutta, 1933)

  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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