Entrance to the Lomas Rishi Cave, Barabar Hills, Gaya, Bihar - 1865
Photograph of the entrance to the Lomas Rishi cave taken by Alexander E. Caddy in 1895. The excavation of this cave has been dated both architecturally and epigraphically to around 250 BC, when the area was ruled by the Mauryan ...
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Reprint:
The Wonder That Was India
By Arthur Llewellyn Basham
Published by Pan Macmillan
First published in 1954, London
A classic that anybody with an interest in the civilisational beginnings of India must read, this is a work of uncompromising scholarship and a labour of love A.L. Basham’s '...
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An important and well-researched essay that unravels the myth of 'Greek origins behind Hindu mathematics' and how this was perpetuated down the ages...
The Reception of Ancient Indian Mathematics by Western Historians
By Albrecht Heeffer
Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Ghent Universi...
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Digital Rare Book:
A Historical View of the Hindu Astronomy, from the earliest dawn of science in India to the present time.
In two parts:
Part I. The ancient astronomy.
Part II. The modern astronomy, with an explanation of the apparent cause of its introduction, and the various impositions tha...
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Article:
How history was made up at Nalanda
By Arun Shourie | June 28, 2014
“The mine of learning, honoured Nalanda” — that is how the 16th-17th century Tibetan historian, Taranath, referred to the university at Nalanda. At the time I-tsing was at the university, there were 3,700 monks. The tota...
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Digital Rare Book:
Considerations on some aspects of Ancient Indian Polity
By K.V.Rangaswami Aiyangar
Published by S.P.C.K. Press, University Printers, Madras - 1916
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Image:
Female Head, terracotta, 6th-7th century, Gandharan style, Jammu, India
Digital Rare Book:
Studies in Ancient Hindu Polity (Based on the Arthaṡâstra of Kautilya)
By Narendranath Nath Law
With an introductory essay on the age and authenticity of the Arthasastra of Kautilya by Prof. Radhakumud Mookerji
Published by Longmans, Green, and Co., London - 1914
Narasimhagupta standing facing left, wearing a waistcloth and jewellery, with a halo around head. Left hand holds a bow, the right hand holds an arrow. In left field a Garuda standard with ribbons. In right field a crescent.
(reverse) Laksmi seated facing on a lotus, wearing lower garments and...
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Digital Rare Book:
History of mediaeval Hindu India - Being a history of India from 600 to 1200 AD
By Chintaman Vinayak Vaidya
Published by The Oriental Book Supplying Agency, Poona - 1921
Digital Rare Book:
Indian Shipping - A history of the sea-borne trade and maritime activity of the Indians from the earliest times
By Radhakumud Mookerji
Published by Longmans, Green and Co., Bombay - 1912
Digital Rare Book:
Prehistoric Ancient And Hindu India
By Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay (also known as R.D.Banerji)
Published by Blackie & Son (India) Ltd., Bombay - 1934
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Railing pillar carved in limestone ...
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Gold Coin.(obverse) Caparisoned horse standing facing left before a decorated sacrificial post (yupa) which rests on a pedestal.
(reverse) Female figure standing facing left, wearing gown and earrings, holding fly-whisk over right shoulder, and a cloth in her left hand, with a halo around her he...
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