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Book Synopsis Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River by : Alice Albinia
Download or read book Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River written by Alice Albinia and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Alice Albinia is the most extraordinary traveler of her generation. . . . A journey of astonishing confidence and courage.”—Rory Stewart One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imperial expansion, and today is the cement of Pakistan’s fractious union. Alice Albinia follows the river upstream, through two thousand miles of geography and back to a time five thousand years ago when a string of sophisticated cities grew on its banks. “This turbulent history, entwined with a superlative travel narrative” (The Guardian) leads us from the ruins of elaborate metropolises, to the bitter divisions of today. Like Rory Stewart’s The Places In Between, Empires of the Indus is an engrossing personal journey and a deeply moving portrait of a river and its people.
Download or read book The Indus written by Andrew Robinson and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indus civilization flourished for half a millennium from about 2600 to 1900 BCE, when it mysteriously declined and vanished from view. It remained invisible for almost four thousand years, until its ruins were discovered in the 1920s by British and Indian archaeologists. Today, after almost a century of excavation, it is regarded as the beginning of Indian civilization and possibly the origin of Hinduism. The Indus: Lost Civilizations is an accessible introduction to every significant aspect of an extraordinary and tantalizing “lost” civilization, which combined artistic excellence, technological sophistication, and economic vigor with social egalitarianism, political freedom, and religious moderation. The book also discusses the vital legacy of the Indus civilization in India and Pakistan today.
Book Synopsis Birds of the Indus by : Mubashir Hasan
Download or read book Birds of the Indus written by Mubashir Hasan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indus valley is home to birds of the South Asian subcontinent, East Africa, Europe and much of the rest of Asia. According to T.J. Roberts, the region serves as a great caravan-serai for Eurasian Avifauna travellers. Ornithologists give different figures of the total number of the speciesof birds in the Indus valley and its adjoining lands. In this book, the author, who, though no specialist, with his passion and love for birds, has attempted to present his rare collection of photographs with a complete description of the birds, their appearance, size, habits and habitat. Accordingto him, birds have been nature's very special gift to our planet and there was a time when man accorded special recognition to birds. Supporting this, he has taken narrated references to human cultural associations with the different species and also written the legends and traditions, particularlyfolklore, associated with them. The descriptions are accompanied with coloured photographs and vernacular names common to the inhabitants of the valley.
Book Synopsis East of Indus by : Gurnam Singh Sidhu Brard
Download or read book East of Indus written by Gurnam Singh Sidhu Brard and published by Hemkunt Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Blood and Water by : David Gilmartin
Download or read book Blood and Water written by David Gilmartin and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book is a history of the political and environmental transformation of the Indus basin as a result of the modern construction of the world's largest, integrated irrigation system. Begun under British colonial rule in the 19th century, this transformation continued after the region was divided between two new states, India and Pakistan, in 1947. Massive irrigation works have turned an arid region into one of dense agricultural population, but its political legacies continue to shape the politics and statecraft of the region"--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis Where the Indus is Young by : Dervla Murphy
Download or read book Where the Indus is Young written by Dervla Murphy and published by Eland Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One winter, Dervla Murphy and her six-year-old daughter explored 'Little Tibet' high up in the Karakoram Mountains in the frozen heart of the Western Himalayas. Dervla records their adventures, from crumbling tracks over bottomless chasms, to assaults by lascivious Kashmiris.
Book Synopsis Indus River Basin by : Sadiq I. Khan
Download or read book Indus River Basin written by Sadiq I. Khan and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2019-01-12 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indus River Basin: Water Security and Sustainability provides a comprehensive treatment of water-related issues within the Indus River basin. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field, hence this book serves as a single, holistic source covering the whole region, not just a single country. Many of the challenges faced by this region are trans-boundary issues, especially within the context of climate change and water scarcity. Topics covered include extreme engineering and water resource management (one of the largest irrigation systems in dry to semi-desert conditions), social sciences (population dynamics linked to water resources) and political sciences. As such, this book is relevant and important to all researchers interested in these issues. - Includes detailed chapters provided by specialists in each different field as compiled by well experienced editors - Presents work from related fields across the Indus basin and makes them easily accessible on one single place - Shows the Indus River as a type case and shares issues relevant to other locations across the world
Download or read book Indus Civilization written by R.K. Pruthi and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Introduction, The Indus Civilization, Origin and Development of the Indus Civilization, Extent and Distribution of Sites, Customs and Amusements, Indian Types of Pottery Vessels in Dvaravati Culture, Inscriptions in Mohenjo Daro, Cracking the Indus Valley Code, Extension of the Indus Civilization, Economics of the Indus Valley Civilization, The Decline, Causes of the Ruin, Some New Evidences, Mohenjo-daro and Rigveda, Is Indus Valley Civilization Dravidian s or Aryan s?
Book Synopsis Life in the Ancient Indus River Valley by : Hazel Richardson
Download or read book Life in the Ancient Indus River Valley written by Hazel Richardson and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the geography, history, economy, language, social classes, villages and cities, religion, culture, and inventions of the ancient Indus River Valley.
Download or read book The Indus Valley written by Jane Shuter and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the civilization of the Indus Valley, which began in ca. 3500 B.C.E., including its culture, government, writing system, and more.
Download or read book Indus Journey written by Imran Khan and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1990 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Indus River written by Shane Mountjoy and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the Indus River, which is the chief river of Pakistan.
Book Synopsis The Indus Civilization by : Mortimer Wheeler
Download or read book The Indus Civilization written by Mortimer Wheeler and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1968-09-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses climate and dating of the Indus Valley civilization and Sir Mortimer Wheeler summarizes other contributions to the study.
Book Synopsis The Indus Civilization by : Gregory L. Possehl
Download or read book The Indus Civilization written by Gregory L. Possehl and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2002-11-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indus Civilization of India and Pakistan was contemporary with, and equally complex as the better-known cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt and China. The dean of North American Indus scholars, Gregory Possehl, attempts here to marshal the state of knowledge about this fascinating culture in a readable synthesis. He traces the rise and fall of this civilization, examines the economic, architectural, artistic, religious, and intellectual components of this culture, describes its most famous sites, and shows the relationships between the Indus Civilization and the other cultures of its time. As a sourcebook for scholars, a textbook for archaeology students, and an informative volume for the lay reader, The Indus Civilization will be an exciting and informative read.
Book Synopsis The Indus Valley by : Ilona Aronovsky
Download or read book The Indus Valley written by Ilona Aronovsky and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses archeological excavations to find out about the civilization of the Indus Valley.
Book Synopsis Temples of the Indus by : Michael W. Meister
Download or read book Temples of the Indus written by Michael W. Meister and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-07-26 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pakistan's northwest, a sequence of temples built between the sixth and the tenth centuries provides a missing chapter in the evolution of the Hindu temple in South Asia. Combining some elements from Buddhist architecture in Gandharā with the symbolically powerful curvilinear Nāgara tower formulated in the early post-Gupta period, this group stands as an independent school of that pan-Indic form, offering new evidence for its creation and original variations in the four centuries of its existence. Drawing on recent archaeology undertaken by the Pakistan Heritage Society as well as scholarship from the Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture project, this volume finally allows the Salt Range and Indus temples to be integrated with the greater South Asian tradition.
Book Synopsis The Indus Script and the Ṛg-Veda by : Egbert Richter-Ushanas
Download or read book The Indus Script and the Ṛg-Veda written by Egbert Richter-Ushanas and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deciphering of the Indus script has met with suspicion and is exposed to ridicule even. Many people are nowadays of the opinion that the Indus script is altogether indecipherable, if not a bilingual of considerable size turns up. The approach to a decipherment presented in this volume makes avail of a bilingual, too, but its masterkey is the discovering of the symbolic connection of the Indus signs with the metaphoric language of the Rg-Veda. Nearly 200 inscriptions, among them the longest and those with the most interesting motifs, have been decoded here by setting them syllable for syllable in relation to Rg-Vedic verses. The results that were gained by this method for the pictographic values of the Indus signs are surprising and far beyond the possibilities of the most daring phantasy. At the same time many problems of the Rg-Veda could be solved or new insights be won.
