The Penguin history of early India : from the origins to AD 1300

Thapar, Romila ;

The Penguin history of early India : from the origins to AD 1300 - New Delhi : Penguin Books, 2002. - xxx, 555 p. : maps ;

Includes Index.

Perceptions of the past --
Landscapes and peoples --
Antecedents --
Towards chiefdoms and kingdoms: c. 1200-600 BC --
States and cities of the Indo-Gangetic Plain: c. 600-300 BC --
The emergence of empire: Mauryan India; c. 321-185 BC --
Of politics and trade: c. 200 BC-AD 300 --
The rise of the mercantile community: c. 200 BC-AD 300 --
Threshold times: c. AD 300-700 --
The peninsula: emerging regional kingdoms; c. AD 500-900 --
The peninsula: establishing authorities and structures; c. AD 900-1300 --
The politics of northern India: c. AD 700-1200 --
Northern India: distributive political economies and regional cultures; c. AD 800-1300.

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