The Wonder that was India: A Survey of the Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent Before the Coming of the Muslims

by A. L. Basham

Overview

A broad survey of India from ancient times up until the end of the 12th century. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's online version of the same title.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148139027
Publisher:	ACLS Humanities E-Book
Publication date:	02/20/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	594
File size:	10 MB

Editorial Reviews

DR. Basham here gives us one of the most useful collections of information on ancient and classical India, both for the general reader and for the initiate, to have appeared in recent years. His attempt is to give a complete outline of Indian civilization up to the end of the twelfth century A.D., when the Moslems overran northern India. The outline includes sections on prehistory, history, society, the state, everyday life, religion, the arts, and language and literature.

The American Historical Review, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Jul., 1956) - Daniel H. H. Ingalls

The book, it happens, is both useful and good, and I should like at once to record my own appreciation. Its purpose, as its subtitle states, is to be "a survey of the Indian sub-continent before the coming of the Muslims." It aims to do so in terms comprehensible "to the ordinary Western reader who has little knowledge of the subject, but some interest in it."

The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 16, No. 3 (May, 1957) - W. Norman Brown