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Prehistoric India - its Place in the World’s Cultures

1927

This was the case when the great Greek conqueror united the four corners of the then known world ; then rushed out Indian spirituality and the boasted civilistion of the West is but the remnant of that deluge. [...] PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION With the growth of the department of Anthrpology established by Late Sir Asutosh Mookerjee and the excavations consequent on the discovery of Mohen-jo-Daro prehistoric studies in India have grown in volume and importance and the additional two hundred and fifty pages can scarcely cope with them. [...] In the Zendavesta the most ancient Persian text the country of the Aryans is mentioned and it was long said that Ariane the district round Herat was the cradle of the Aryan languages. [...] to study the ancient human remains and determine their age and order of succession by the stratigraphie method ; (2) Palaeontology procures for him the fossils indicating the relative age ; (3) Ethnography aids the prehistorian in his study of the industrial vestiges and conditions of existence of primitive man ; and lastly (4) Typological method allows him in the absence of all others (stratigra [...] The unwritten phase in no case ceases with the beginning of the written phase of the history of any people ; a large part of the current history in all cases being unwritten passes unless temporarily conserved by tradition or by some non-purposful method directly into the vast body of the subject-matter of archaeological science or othewise into the great blank of oblivion.
history
Pages
596
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144480
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-xxviii Panchanan Mitra view
Chapter I Races and Cultures in India—Earlier Studies and Present Outlook
1-51 Panchanan Mitra view
Chapter II The Geological Background; Geographical and Palaeogeographical Features
52-91 Panchanan Mitra view
Chapter III The Palaeontological Basis—the Human Ancestry—the Cradleland—the Siwalik Primates—Primates—Fossil Men Outside India
92-123 Panchanan Mitra view
Chapter IV The Earliest Artifacts of Prechellean India(Probably More than a Lac of Years Old)
124-145 Panchanan Mitra view
Chapter V Early Palaeolithic Phases—Chellean Acheullean and Mousterian Types
146-165 Panchanan Mitra view
Chapter VI Pleistocene Cave Life—Karnui
166-179 Panchanan Mitra view
Chapter VII Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Cultures—the Capsian Industry Stations
180-ii Panchanan Mitra view
Chapter VIII Prehistoric Cave-Art and Rock-Carvings
193-215 Panchanan Mitra view
Chapter IX The Neolithic Types in India
216-228 Panchanan Mitra view
Chapter X The Neolithic Culture-Stations
229-242 Panchanan Mitra view
Chapter XI Prehistoric Metallurgy
243-260 Panchanan Mitra view
Chapter XII Mohen-Jo-Daro— a Remarkable Discovery of an Eneolithic Site—Harappa and Nai
261-276 Panchanan Mitra view
Chapter XIII Prehistoric Copper and Bronze Finds from Other Sites
277-300 Panchanan Mitra view
Chapter XIV The Indian Megaliths—Their Builders and Origin
301-339 Panchanan Mitra view
Chapter XV The Megalithic Structures—Their Architectural Features Contents and Distribution in India
340-366 Panchanan Mitra view
Chapter XVI From Extinct to Living Types—Mammals—the Bayana Sialkot Nala Mohen-Jo-Daro and Adichanallur Huma Remains
367-395 Panchanan Mitra view
Chapter XVII Prehistoric Potteries and Terracottas of India
396-426 Panchanan Mitra view
Chapter XVIII Culture-Sequence and Origins
427-457 Panchanan Mitra view
Appendix
458-475 Percy Brown view
Additional Note on Indian Rostrocarinates
476-478 Biswanath Banerjea view
Notices of Prehistoric Finds Sites etc in India
479-493 La Touche, T.U. Das view
Index
494-512 Panchanan Mitra view
Opinions of the Press
513-514 M. Boule view

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