Author: Thapar, Romila
Title: Early India from the Origins to AD 1300
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (2002). orig.boards. 24x15cm, xxx,556 pp. Minor rubbing. Some light page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Contents: Perceptions of the Past; Landscapes & Peoples; Antecedents; Towards Chiefdoms & Kingdoms, c. 1200 - 600 BC; States & Cities of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, c. 600-300 BC; The Emergence of Empire: Mauryan India,c. 321-185 BC; Of Politics & 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, ca. 500-900; Establishing Authorities & Structures, AD 900-1300; The Politics of Northern India, c. AD 700-1200; Northern India: Distributive Political Economies & Regional Cultures, c. AD 800-1300.

Keywords: India, South Asia, Prehistory, Ancient History, Historiography, Early Medieval, , ,