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Author : Jean Deloche
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Studies on Fortification in India written by Jean Deloche and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dieter Schlingloff
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783083492
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Fortified Cities of Ancient India written by Dieter Schlingloff and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authored by one of the leading scholars of German Indology, “Fortified Cities in Ancient India” offers a comparative exploration of the development of towns and cities in ancient India. Based on in-depth textual and archeological research, Professor Dieter Schlingloff’s work presents for the first time the striking outcomes of intertwining data garnered from a wide range of sources. This volume scrutinizes much of the established knowledge on urban fortifications in South Asia, advancing new conceptions based on an authoritative, far-reaching study.
Author : Gurcharn Singh Sandhu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Military History of Ancient India written by Gurcharn Singh Sandhu and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India's military history goes back to the Indus or Harappan people who flourished 5,000 years ago; the history of military fortifications in the country goes back even further. It remains, however, a subject largely neglected by the country's historians. This book traces the evolution of India's military tactics and strategy during the ancient period and till the eleventh century ad by examining available sources from a dispassionate, professional military perspective. The author analyses the military factors which led to the end of the Harappan civilization. The Rig Veda contains a great deal of information about battles fought by the Aryans. The author makes use of the description of the first recorded battle, the Dasrajan War fought around 1900 bc, as a basis for reconstructing the strategy and tactics employed by the combatants. The portion of Kautilya's Arthashastra dealing with matters military has been examined at some length because it exercised a profound influence on the tactics of Indian warfare for over a millennium. Such loyalty to the injunctions of the shastras bred extreme conservatism in military doctrine and often effectively prevented progress and innovation in the art of war. Learning from experience, the Guptas repudiated Kautilya's static concept and successfully defended the country against the Hunas. This work traces how a subsequent reversion to tradition and the antiquated Kautilyan system led to tragic consequences.
Author : Rima Hooja
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443896373
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Conserving Fortified Heritage written by Rima Hooja and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of papers presented at the first international conference on ‘Challenges Faced in Interpretation and Site Management in Fortifications and World Heritage’, organised jointly by ICOFORT India, the National Scientific Committee on Fortifications and Military Heritage of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) India, ICOFORT International Scientific Committee, the World Monuments Fund, the School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, UNESCO, and the DRONAH Foundation held in February 2015. It brought together a team of international and national experts, architects and scholars who shared their experiences and opinions, and looked at possible solutions to the problems faced in site management and interpretation of fortifications. Structured as per conference sessions, the book provides a preface based on the ICOFORT Charter, and is divided into three sections: namely, Classifying Fortified Heritage; Conservation and Management Challenges in Forts; and Interpretation and Tourism Challenges in Forts. The book will appeal to both a national and international audience, composed primarily of heritage experts, architects, archivists, students of architecture, ICOMOS members, and scholars with a focus on fortifications and world heritage.
Author : Pramod Maruti Mande
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788194216520
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Forts & Palaces in India written by Pramod Maruti Mande and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains information on 4088 forts in 26 States, 6 Union Territories and 521 Districts of India. Additionally, there are 1282 colored photographs and 33 maps in this book. Information on latitude, longitude and height from sea level for each fort, along with its distance and direction from district headquarters, current state of the fort, structures on the same, its brief history, as well as famous places near the fort etc. has been provided. Also, information about forts given in more than 43 ancient texts like Rigveda, Manusmriti, Purana, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Arthashastra etc. has been provided. Description of ancient forts that are symbolic of India’s glorious tradition since Harappa, Mohenjo-daro, Kalibangan, Lothal, Pataliputra has also been included. A brief geographical description of India along with its states has also been given. This book is one of its kind, where in India’s 4000 forts, palaces, fortification, remnants of ancient forts, fortified cities, travellers’ inns, small forts built for supervision of main roads and watch towers etc. have been included. Such a comprehensive list of forts and information on them had never been created so far. This 780 page book has been authored by Pramod Maruti Mande and co-authored by Mr. Aniket Ankush Yadav and Mr. Chetan Gajanan Ghadge.
Author : Sarva Daman Singh
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Ancient Indian Warfare written by Sarva Daman Singh and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1965 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Virginia Fass
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Forts of India written by Virginia Fass and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1986 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Konstantin S Nossov
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780969856
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Indian Castles 1206–1526 written by Konstantin S Nossov and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beginning of the 2nd millennium AD northern India began to fall under the sway of a number of Muslim-Turkic rulers who, at the start of the 13th century, founded the series of dynasties known to history as the Delhi Sultanate. For three centuries these sultans expanded their territory, which led to a dramatic rise in the number of fortifications throughout the subcontinent. This period is the defining age of the Indian castle and the combined influence of the Islamic and Hindu architectural tradition lends these fortifications a unique style. This book covers all the major sites of the period including the fabled seven medieval cities on the site of the present-day city of Delhi.
Author : Amita Baig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788187108474
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Forts and Palaces of India written by Amita Baig and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India has a rich cultural past and this is reflected in its innumerable forts, palaces and other monuments, which abound not only in architectural splendour but intriguing individual histories. This book takes a splendid tour of these structures through the whole of India, from Kashmir in the north to Kerala in the south. The architectural magnificence and luxury of these royal palaces are highlighted in the full-colour pictures and detailed essays. Over 325 colour photographs revel in the buildings glorious details and special features, while vivid descriptions of each palace transport the reader back in time into a realm of truly royal experience. Encompassing the rich cultural heritage of India, these forts and palaces offer an authentic Indian experience to heritage lovers.
Author : D D Kosambi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000653471
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in HIstorical Outline written by D D Kosambi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1965, The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline is a strikingly original work, the first real cultural history of India. The main features of the Indian character are traced back into remote antiquity as the natural outgrowth of historical process. Did the change from food gathering and the pastoral life to agriculture make new religions necessary? Why did the Indian cities vanish with hardly a trace and leave no memory? Who were the Aryans – if any? Why should Buddhism, Jainism, and so many other sects of the same type come into being at one time 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 collapse of the Magadhan empire; was the Gupta empire fundamentally different from its great predecessor, or just one more ‘oriental despotism’? These are some of the many questions handled with great insight, yet in the simplest terms, in this stimulating work. This book will be of interest to students of history, sociology, archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies, South Asian studies and ethnic studies.
Author : Marie-Françoise Boussac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789384082079
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Ports of the Ancient Indian Ocean written by Marie-Françoise Boussac and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ports of the Ancient Indian Ocean looks at the multisided role that 'ports' played in the exchange and transfer of knowledge between the 'Indian Ocean' and Mediterranean societies. Through the early Greek Periplus to minute descriptions by the Portuguese in the late sixteenth century or French archives of the colonial period, an accurate knowledge was gradually developed and transmitted on what is now called the Indian Ocean. The contributions focus on the nature of this knowledge, its history and status, using and combining new archaeological data and recent publications of textual material. They deal with material originating from the Red Sea to India, through Arabia and the Persian Gulf, shedding a new light on ancient ports and maritime contacts, with a special interest not only on India but on related areas as well, such as Sri Lanka and South-East Asia.
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ISBN 13 : 9788173056161
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (561 download)
Download or read book Forts of the Deccan, 1200-1800 written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarva Daman Singh
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120804869
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Ancient Indian Warfare written by Sarva Daman Singh and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1989 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ancient Indian Warfare, the author has pieced together all the available archaeological data and made a thorough study of the entire range of Vedic literature in a bid to present for the first time as complete a picture of warfare as these sources permit. He deals with a period so far given scant attention, or none at all. He stops where virtually all the other writers on the subject begin. The Epic and Buddhist material has been used to support, elucidate and complete the picture of the rearly period. The archaeological evidence has been utilized as fully as possible to add the weight of material proof to literary testimony. The author explores the domestication of horses and elephants and their use for military purposes; the invention of wheeled vehicles and the battle-chariot; the use of metals for the manufacture of weapons; the nature of ancient arms and armour; forts and fortifications; military order and organisation; and the uneasy birth of a moral consciousness evidenced in the development of a code of war.
Author : Aaron Burke
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004376682
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Walled Up to Heaven written by Aaron Burke and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first comprehensive study of fortification systems and defensive strategies in the Levant during the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 1900 to 1500 B.C.E.), this book is an indispensable contribution to the study of early warfare in the ancient Near East.
Author : Binode Behari Dutt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Town Planning in Ancient India written by Binode Behari Dutt and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James D. Tracy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521652216
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (522 download)
Download or read book City Walls written by James D. Tracy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-25 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays presented in this volume, first published in 2000, describe a phenomenon so widespread in human time and space that its importance is easily overlooked. City walls shaped the history of warfare; the mobilisation of manpower and resources needed to build them favoured some kinds of polities over others; and their massive strength, appropriately ornamented, created a visual language of authority. Previous collective volumes on the subject have dealt mainly with Europe, but the historians and art historians who collaborate here follow a comparative agenda. The millennial practice of wall building that branched out from the ancient Near East into India, Europe, and North Africa shows continuities and points of contact of which the makers of urban fortifications were scarcely aware; separate traditions in China, sub-Saharan Africa, and North America illustrate universal themes of defensive strategy and the symbolism of power, each time embedded in a distinctive local context.
Author : M. S. Naravane
Publisher : APH Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788170249108
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (491 download)
Download or read book The Maritime and Coastal Forts of India written by M. S. Naravane and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
