Kosambi Ancient India

Kosambi, D.D.. ANCIENT INDIA. A History Of Its Culture And Civilization. New York: Pantheon Books, [1965]
Black cloth-covered spine, gilt-stamping, yellow paper-covered boards, Indian design stamped in yellow ink on front board, top edge of pages dyed black, deckle edge paper (hardcover binding). Maps. Illustrated with 16 text figures and 98 black & white photographs. Index. CONDITION: 1" closed tear at upper left-hand corner of front panel of dust jacket, rear panel of dust jacket lightly soiled, else Very Good book in Very Good dust jacket. "In this strikingly original combination of history, archaeology, and anthropology, D.D. Kosambi has given us the first real social history of India. The main features of the Indian character are traced back into remote antiquity as the natural outgrowth of a historical process. Did the change from food gathering and the pastoral life to agriculture make new religions necessary? Why did the Indus cities vanish without a trace and leave no memory? Who were the Aryans - if any? Did the caste system ever serve any useful social purpose? How does it happen that slavery of the type seen in ancient Greece and Rome never appeared in India? Why should Buddhism, Jainism, and so many other sects of the same type come into being and in the same region? How could Buddhism spread over so large a part of Asia while dying out completely in the land of its origin? What caused the rise and what led to the collapse of the Magadhan empire; was the Gupta empire fundamentally different from its great predecessor...? These are some of the many questions Kosambi handles with fresh insight, yet in the simplest terms, in this revealing and refreshing book." C.2.. First American edition, so stated. Tall 8vo (6 1/2" x 9 5/8"). xi, [i], 243 pages. Cloth-backed pictorial boards.

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Narain, A.K. & Gopal, Lallanji, editors: Seminar Papers on the Chronology of the Punch-marked Coins, Banaras Hindu University Varanasi (1966)
23x17cm, xi,186,(1) pp, A large chip from spine. Series: Banaras Hindu University: Dept. of Ancient Indian History, Culture & Archaeology, Memoirs, No. 1. Contains 18 papers + 5 comments. Includes: T.V. Mahalingam "Chronology of the Punch-marked Coins of South India"; S.P.Gupta "C-14 Dates Determining the Chronology of N.B.P. Ware and Punch- marked Coins"; M.D. Khare "Note on the Punch-marked Coins from the Recent Excavations at Besnagar"; K.D. Bajpai "Chronological Sequence of the Punch-marked Coins at Eran"; N. Ahmad "The Bearing of the Archaeological Evidence from Maheshwar on the Chronology of the Punch-marked Coins"; D.D. Kosambi "Punch-marked Coins of Amravati Hoard"; K.K. Sinha "Sun-Symbol on Punch-marked Coins & Terracotta Discs"; H.C. Bhardwaj "Bearing of Chemical Composition & Metallography on the Chronology of the Punch-marked Coins"; L. Gopal "Source for Silver for Punch-marked Coins"; Jai Prakash "The Bearing of a Study of Hoards on the Chronology of the Punch-marked Coins"; N. Ahmad "The Chronology of the Bent-bar & Round and Concave Coins"; Balram Shrivastava "The Bearing of Trade & Commerce on the Origin of the Punch-marked Coins"; etc.

Photoplate, textual tables orig.wrappers Spine tears. Cover soil. Rubbed. Inked note to cover. Just Good.

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Cunningham, Alexander: ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA, New Delhi, India Munshiram Manoharial Publishers Private, Limited 2002
ISBN: 8121510643 Very Good

Munshiram Manoharlal. Hardbound 770 Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Pioneers in this field of research. 2. Sources of the geography of ancient India. 3. A critical estimate of indigenous sources: I. Literary sources. II. Traditional. III. Archaeological. Northern India: I. Kaofu, or Afghanistan : 1. Kapisene, or Opian. 2. Kophene, or Kabul. 3. Arachosia or Ghazni. 4. Lamghan. 5. Nagarahara, or Jalalabad. 6. Gandhara, or Parashawar. 7. Udyana, or Swat. 8. Bolor, or Balti. 9. Falana, or Banu. 10. Opokien, or Afghanistan (Loi, or Roh). II. Kashmir : 1. Kashmir (province). 2. Urasa. 3. Taxila, or Takshasila. 4. Singhapura, or Ketas. 5. Punacha, or Punach. 6. Rajapuri, or Rajaori. III. Taki, or Panjab : 1. Taki, or Northern Panjab. 2. Shorkot,or middle Panjab. 3. Multan, or Southern Panjab. Western India: I. Sindh : 1. Upper Sindh. 2. Middle Sindh. 3. Lower Sindh, or Lar. 4. Kachh. II. Gurjjara. III. Valabhadra, or Balabhi : 1. Balabhi. 2. Surashtra. 3. Bharoch, or Barygaza. Central India: 1. Sthaneswara. 2. Bairat. 3. Srughna.4. Madawar. 5. Brahmapura. 6. Govisana, or Kashipur. 7. Ahichhatra. 8. Piloshana. 9. Sankisa. 10. Mathura. 11. Kanoj. 12. Ayuto. 13. Hayamukha. 14. Prayaga. 15. Kosambi. 16. Kusapura. 17. Visakha, Saketa, or Ajudhya. 18. Sravasti. 19. Kapila. 20. Kusinagara. 21. Varanasi, or Banaras. 22. Garjjapatipura. 23. Vaisali. 24. Vriji. 25. Nepala. 26. Magadha. 27. Hiranya Parvata. 28. Champa. 29. Kankjol. 30. Paundra Varddhana. 31. Jajhoti. 32. Maheswarapura. 33. Ujain. 34. Malwa. 35. Kheda. 36. Anandapura. 37. Vadari, or Eder. Eastern India: 1. Kamarupa. 2. Samatata. 3. Very Good Cloth 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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D.D. Kosambi: Indian Numismatics, Orient Longman ,1981 ,New Delhi ISBN: 0861310187

This volume brings together twelve of Kosambi"s major essays on the statistical and analysical study of coins from ancient India.; Hardbound. Aufl.

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