TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sharma, Ram Sharan
TI  - India's ancient past
SN  - 9780195687859
U1  - 934 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New Delhi, 
PB  - Oxford University Press, 
KW  - India - History
N1  - The significance of ancient Indian history
; Modern historians of ancient India
; Nature of sources and historical construction
; Geographical setting
; Ecology and environment
; The linguistic background
; Human evolution: the Old Stone Age
; The Neolithic Age: first food producers and animal keepers
; Chalcolithic cultures
; Harappan culture: Bronze Age, urbanization in the Indus Valley
; Identity of Aryan Culture
; The age of the Rig Veda
; The later Vedic Phase: transition to state and social orders
; Jainism and Buddhism
; Territorial states and the rise of Magadha
; Iranian and Macedonian invasions
; State structure and the Varna System in the Age of the Buddha
; The Maurya Age
; The significance of Maurya rule
; Central Asian contact and mutual impact
; The Satavahana Phase
; The dawn of history in the deep south
; Crafts, commerce, and urban growth (200 BC-AD 250)
; Rise and growth of the Gupta Empire
; Life in the Gupta Age
; Spread of civilization in Eastern India
; Harsha and his times
; Brahmanization, rural expansion, and peasant protest in the peninsula
; Developments in philosophy
; Cultural interaction with Asian countries
; From Ancient to Medieval
; Sequence of social changes
; Legacy in science and civilization
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