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EARLY INDIA: FROM THE ORIGINS TO AD1300
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EARLY INDIA: FROM THE ORIGINS TO AD1300 Hardback - 2002

by Thapar, Romila

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Published by University of California Press, 2002. 1st edition.. Hardback. Nearly Fine/Nearly Fine. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. Early India represents a complete rewriting by Romila Thapar of her classic work, A History of India, thirty-five years after it was first published. Thousands of years of history, tracing India's evolution before contact with modern Europe was established: its prehistoic beginnings; the great cities of Indus civilization, the emergence of mighty dynasties, the teachings of Buddha; the creation or heroic epics; and the creation of state and regional cultures. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Tiny nick to base of spine else a fine, clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is just lightly scuffed.
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  • Title EARLY INDIA: FROM THE ORIGINS TO AD1300
  • Author Thapar, Romila
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st edition.
  • Condition Used - Nearly Fine
  • Pages 586
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
  • Date 2002
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1823490
  • ISBN 9780520238992 / 0520238990
  • Weight 2.21 lbs (1.00 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.52 x 6.38 x 1.5 in (24.18 x 16.21 x 3.81 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects India - History - 1000-1526, India - History - 324 B.C.-1000 A.D
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002031453
  • Dewey Decimal Code 934

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About the author

Romila Thapar is Professor Emeritus in History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. In 1983 she was elected General President of the Indian History Congress and in 1999 a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. She is the author of Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas; Ancient Indian Social History: Some Interpretations; History and Beyond; Sakuntala: Texts, Readings, Histories; Cultural Pasts: Essays in Early Indian History; and Somanatha: the Many Voices of a History (2004).

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