Screen LibraryFrom Harappa to Hastinapura：a study of the earliest South Asian city and civilization
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| Published: |
Brill,
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| Publisher Address: | Boston |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
American School of Prehistoric Research monograph series |
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| Carrier Form: | xxxi, 240 p.: ill., plans ; 27 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9789004160606 9004160604 |
| Index Number: | K883 |
| CLC: | K883.502 |
| Call Number: | K883.502/E515 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-237) and index. From historical agents to structure: a new method for the study of ancient South Asia -- The chimera of the city: from Saint Augustine to Doxiades and to ancient Indian literature -- The idea of the city in the Ganges civilization -- The idea of the city in the Harappan/Indus civilization -- The idea of civilization: from Voltaire to Braudel and to the Sanskrit Puranas -- The idea of the ancient Indian civilization: a framework of enquiry -- Postscript: On theory and politics -- Critical editions of the quoted Sanskrit and Pāli texts. |