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- Creator
- Stanley Wolpert
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1991]
- ©1991
- Physical Details
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- xii, 273 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780520072176, 0520072170
- OCLC
- ocm22274888
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-262) and index.
- River -- Heat -- Monsoon rains -- Mountain walls -- Pre-Aryan urbanization -- Aryan conquests and emerging synthesis -- Ancient imperial unification and its limits -- Islamic conquests -- Westernization and modernization -- Young India's revolutions and reforms -- Impact of Mahatma Gandhi -- Yoga and Shaivism -- Mother Goddess worship -- Nonviolent Buddhism and Jainism -- Laws of action and reincarnation -- Devotional Vaishnavism -- Higher Hindu philosophy -- Islam in India -- Sikhism -- Modernist religious movements -- Caste and class -- Untouchability -- Family -- Roles of women -- Village life -- Urban revolution -- Dance, drama, and music -- Worship in bronze and stone -- Caves, temple and regal art, and architecture -- Art of literature -- Scientific contributions -- Kingship and democracy -- Economic planning and development -- Foreign policy -- Future