Editore: Kaveri Books, 2004
ISBN 10: 8174790578 ISBN 13: 9788174790576
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Condizione: New. pp. xii + 210, Maps 1st Edition.
Editore: Kaveri Books, 2004
ISBN 10: 8174790578 ISBN 13: 9788174790576
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Condizione: New. pp. xii + 210 Figures, Illus., Maps.
Editore: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, 2000
ISBN 10: 8186050477 ISBN 13: 9788186050477
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Condizione: New. xxvi 204 32 of lates, 4 Maps, Index 1st Edition.
Editore: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, 2000
ISBN 10: 8186050477 ISBN 13: 9788186050477
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Condizione: New. xxvi 204 32 of lates Illus., 4 Maps.
Editore: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, 2008
ISBN 10: 8180901890 ISBN 13: 9788180901898
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Condizione: New. pp. xxiv + 360, Maps (Some Col.), Index 1st Edition.
Editore: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, 2008
ISBN 10: 8180901890 ISBN 13: 9788180901898
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Condizione: New. pp. xxiv + 360 111 Figures, Illus. (Partly Col.), Maps (Some Col.).
Editore: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, Delhi, 2000
ISBN 10: 8186050477 ISBN 13: 9788186050477
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Editore: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, Delhi, 2006
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Editore: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, Delhi, 2004
ISBN 10: 8180900347 ISBN 13: 9788180900341
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Editore: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, 2005
ISBN 10: 8180900347 ISBN 13: 9788180900341
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Editore: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, Delhi, 2006
ISBN 10: 8180901165 ISBN 13: 9788180901164
Da: Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, India
Hardbound. Condizione: As New. New. Contents Preface. Introduction. I. Introduction 1. Discovery. 2. Nomenclature. 3. Story of Harappan discovery. 4. Origin of Harappan Civilization. 5. Harappan Civilization in South Asia. 6. Settlement patterns urban planning and architecture. 7. Migration of mature Harappan. 8. Harappan Archaeology an update. 9. Extent. II. Art 10. Harappan stone image. 11. Harappan bronze figurines. 12. Harappan terracotta figurines. 13. Harappan terracotta animal figurines. 14. Harappan terracotta male figurines. 15. Harappan bird terracotta figurines. 16. Terracotta horses from Harappan sites. III. Minor arts and crafts 17. Harappan steatite and other materials. 18. Harappan jewellery. 19. Harappan hard stone bead making technique. 20. Seals sealings and copper tablets. 21. Lapizlazuli items from Harappan sites. IV. Harappan society and religion 22. Harappan ceramic. 23. Who were Harappans. 24. Burial customs of Harappans. 25. Harappan agriculture. 26. Harappan games and sports. 27. Harappan food and cooking tradition. 28. Harappan script and language. 29. Harappan religion. 30. Social stratification and political set up of mature Harappans. V. Harappan trade and transport 31. Harappan transport. 32. Harappan tools and instruments. 33. The middle Asian Trade. 34. Harappan weights and measures. 35. Industrial base of mature Harappan. 36. Tin in Harappan civilization. 37. Communication and transport by land. 38. Cotton textiles. VI. End of Harappan Civilization 39. Harappan legacy. 40. Decline of Harappan Civilization. 41. Chronology. VII. 42. The Harappan Civilization an overview. Bibliography. Index. Glimpses of Harappan Archaeology (C. 2700 B.C. 2000 B.C.) is a joint work of D.P. Sharma and Madhuri Sharma. The book includes introduction nomenclatures discoveries stories of excavations migration updates about Harappan archaeology art minor arts and crafts Harappan society religion trade transport and the decline of Harappan Civilization. The Harappan civilization is the most appropriate term for its nomenclature. In 1917 Lugi Pi Tessitori did excavations at Kalibangan. Prof. Nayanjot Lahiri has recently confirmed that Tessitori's excavated material of Kalibangan belongs to early and mature Harappan age. Since then about 2668 Harappan and its associated sites have been reported in Northwest South Asia whereas Harappan Archaeologists have excavated only 208 sites. Harappan Civilization covers 1 6 million sq. km. in area. The newly excavated sites of Harappan Civilization are Barror Chak 86 Kuran Bhirana Mandi and Sanauli. The Harappans used steatite Lapis Lazuli clay Faience ivory gold silver and carnelian for their craft and jewellery items. The artisans were skilled in making bronze terracotta and stone sculptures most of them being handmade and very small in size. This was the beginning of first urbanization in the subcontinent with the emergence of well planned cities with massive walls and gateways highly developed trade and transportation agriculture and use of script and languages. 178 pp.
Editore: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, Delhi, 2008
Da: Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, India
Hardbound. Condizione: As New. New. Contents Preface. Acknowledgment. 1. The course of Lost Saraswati River/A.K. Gupta. 2. The Lost Saraswati River/D.P. Sharma and Madhuri Sharma. 3. The Indus Saraswati Civilization origin maturity and decline/S.P. Gupta. 4. Remote sensing of Lost Saraswati River/Yashpal. 5. Saraswati the Lost River of the N.W. South Asia/C.F. Oldhan. 6. Vedic Saraswati River/B.P. Radhakrishna. 7. Migration of the Saraswati River/A.S. Rajawat. 8. Lost Vedic Saraswati River/Baldev Sahai. 9. Saraswati river and civilization/N.S. Bajaram. 10. The Lost Saraswati River/O.P. Bharadwaj. 11. Saraswati River/V.S. Wakankar. 12. The Saraswati River problem/Michel Danino. 13. The Harappan and the Aryan/Michel Danino. 14. Rigveda A historical outline/Varun Singh. 15. Saraswati is no myth/Pallava Bagla. 16. The authors of Veda/G.C. Pande. 17. Excavations and explorations in Lost Saraswati/I.D. Dvivedi. 18. The myth of Aryans/B.B. Lal. 19. Baror excavated site in Saraswati Plain/Urmila Sant. 20. The excavation at Bhirrana in Saraswati Plain/L.S. Rao. 21. Saraswati that disappeared/K.S. Veldiya. 22. The archaeological sites in the Saraswati Region/A.K. Gupta. 23. Course of Vedic River Saraswati/P.S. Thakur. 24. The Luni and Vedic Saraswati/Bharat Jhunjhun Wala. 25. Harappan ecology in the Rigveda/Bhagwan Singh. 26. The Rigvedic Flora and Fauna/B.B. Lal. 27. The Lost Saraswati River in the Harappan Region/K.S. Veldiya. Bibliography. Index. The Lost Saraswati Civilization is an edited work of Deo Prakash Sharma and Madhuri Sharma. Till today around 2668 Harappan and its associated sites have been reported in North West South Asia in which 1100 sites are located on dry banks of River Saraswati and it tributaries. During third Millennium B.C. Hindon was a tributary of river Saraswati and around 250 Harappan sites have been reported on the banks of river Hindon Mandi Hulas Alamgirpur Sanuoli Toppal are important Harappan sites located on the bank of river Hindon which is now a tributary of Yamuna. We have excavated 208 Harappan sites. Ganweriwala is the largest (350 hectares) Harappan site located on dry bank of Saraswati (or Hakra) in Cholistan (Pakistan). Few excavated Harappan sites in Saraswati Region are Desalpur Dholavira Kalibangan Bhirrana Barror Dhalewan Banawali Kunal and Rakhigarhi. Saraswati or Hakra or Ghaggar was a Holy River. From 6000 B.C. to 1800 B.C. Saraswati flowed from South of Siwalik through Himachal Haryana Punjab Northern Rajasthan and finally was joining Desalpur in Arabian Sea. Due to tectonic disturbance in the Siwalik Saraswati river course moved steadily in the clockwise direction eventually flowing east south east rather than south. The stream captured by the emerging Yamuna River compromised its water shed and River Saraswati began to dry up around 1800 B.C. Archaeologists observed after analyzing literature and remote sensing images that river Saraswati flowed through Rajasthan desert. This lost River Saraswati was 1500 km. long and between 3 to 12 km. wide. This volume includes 27 papers. 358 pp.
Editore: Kaveri Books, New Delhi, 2006
ISBN 10: 8174790721 ISBN 13: 9788174790729
Da: Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, India
Hardbound. Condizione: As New. New. Contents Vol. I Preface. I. Introduction 1. Harappan civilization/D.P. Sharma. 2. South Asian Archaeology some issues/D.P. Agrawal. II. Early harappans 3. New discoveries point to a Southern origin Gulf of Cambay/David Frawley and Navratna Rajaram. 4. World's oldest lost civilization found in South Asia/Raj Chengapa. 5. Early Neolithic settlement in Bannu Pakistan/J.R. Knox Farid Khan and K.D. Thomas. 6. Sheri Khan Tarakai excavation in Bannu District N.W.F.P/J.R. Knox Farid Khan and K.D. Thomas. 7. Origin of the Harappan civilization/D.P. Sharma. 8. Origin of Harappan civilization and Mehrgarh excavations/Jean Francois Jarrige. 9. Earliest agriculture in the Kachi Plain (Mehrgarh)/Lorenzo Costantini. 10. Early Harappan remains pottery and artifacts at Nausharo/Anaick Samzun. 11. Early Harappan ceramics/D.P. Sharma. 12. Petrographic analysis of early Harappan ceramics of South Asia (ca. 3500 2700 B.C.)/Graham M. Chandler. 13. Padri the early Harappan site in Gujarat/Vasant Shinde. 14. Early Harappans in Gujarat/Abhijit Majumdar. 15. Ochre coloured ceramics and the early and mature Harappans/R.C. Gaur. 16. 5 4 millennium dating Rigveda culture/Shivaji Singh. 17. Indo European homeland an Indian perspective/D.N. Tripathi. 18. Dhalewan early mature Harappan excavated site in Punjab (India)/Madhubala and Vishnu Kant. 19. Transformation of the Harappan civilization/G.L. Possehl. Vol. II III. Indus Sarasvati controversies 20. Indus and Sarasvati in History geology and archaeology/S.P. Gupta. 21. Archaeology of Sarasvati/B.B. Lal. 22. Origins of the Indus Sarasvati civilization/S.P. Gupta. 23. Harappans and Rigveda/R.S. Bisht. 24. Harappan Vedic civilization/Suman Pandya. 25. The Harappans Sarasvati and Rigveda/T.P. Verma. 26. Rigvedic and Harappan connections/Shivaji Singh. 27. The Mahabharat for Harappan civilization/S.P. Gupta. 28. Sarasvati and Harappan archaeology/Vedagya Arya. 29. Vedic Harappans/N.S. Rajaram. 30. Archaeology cannot Prove the Vedas/Nayanjot Lahiri and Upender Singh. 31. Rational approach to the Rigveda and Indus civilization/Malati J Shende. 32. Indus seals and Atharvaveda/P.V. Pathak. 33. Notes on flora and fauna in the Rigveda/B.B. Lal. 34. Technology transfer in 4 millennium B.C. in Bannu Basin/K.D. Thomas J.R. Knox and Farid Khan. 35. Third millennium painted Grey Wares in Pakistan and Iran/Rita P. Wright. 36. Sarasvati river and civilization/N.S. Rajaram. 37. Harappan language and script/N.S. Rajaram. 38. Vedic Harappans and the horse symbolism/N.S. Rajaram and N. Jha. 39. Harappan occupation at Nausharo/Jean Francois Jarrige. 40. Collapse of the Sarasvata Sabhyata an elegy in Mahabharata/Arun Kumar. According to a scholar the Harappan civilization is the gift of two rivers the Indus and Sarasvati whose tributaries had played a dominant and decisive role in the origin of this bronze civilization. As of now around 2668 Harappan and its associated sites have been reported of which 1068 sites are located in the dried up bank of the Sarasvati river. The Sarasvati was a mighty river between ca. 5000 and 1800 B.C. around ca. 1800 B.C. due to neo tectonic movements in the Himalayas the river started drying up. It flowed down from the Himalayas to Adi Badri towards Desalpur in Gujarat. This work is a collection of forty research papers contributed by the noted scholars and historians from India and abroad. Volume one contains nineteen papers which includes introduction the origin of Harappan and early Harappan village Chalcolithic cultures. Volume two covers on Indus Sarasvati civilization and includes twenty one papers on the mature Indus Sarasvati civilization which contain controversial and clashing views. Available archaeological evidences suggest the Atharvavedic and mature Harappan were contemporary and they had contacts with each other. The Atharvavedic people were the authors of the copper hoard culture. The nomenclature either of Harappan Indus or Indus Sarasvati civilization hardly matters as the meaning.