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The Civilization of India

1901

The banks of the Nile and the Euphrates and the banks of the Hoang-ho and the Indus were the isolated spots which first witnessed the culture of civilised arts and idustries of science and learning. [...] It is the same word as the Zeus of the Greeks and the Jupiter of the Latins the Tiu of the Saxons and the Zio of the Germans and the name of the Deity among modern nations. [...] Two of them the KURDS and the PANCHALAS lived along the upper course of the Ganges and are the main actors of the Hindu epic known as the Maha-Marata. [...] They heard that the princess of the Panchalas was about to select her husband from among many suitors and princes ; and they went to the capital of the Panchala country to witness the festivities by the advice of the saintly Vyasa the reputed author of the Epic. [...] During the Vedic Age (z000 to z 400 Aryan civilisation spread itself over the Punjab and the literature and the history of the age are the literature and the history of the Punjab.
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Frontmatter
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Chapter I Vedic Age Circa 2000 to 1400 B.C.
1-14 Romesh Dutt view
Chapter II Epic Age Circa 1400 to 800 B.C.
15-24 Romesh Dutt view
Chapter III Age of Laws and Philosophy 800 to 315 B.C.
25-35 Romesh Dutt view
Chapter IV Rise of Buddhism 522 B.C.
36-48 Romesh Dutt view
Chapter V Buddhist Age 315 B.C. to A.D. 500
49-64 Romesh Dutt view
Chapter VI Poranic Age A.D. 500 to 800
65-78 Romesh Dutt view
Chapter VII Age of Rajput Ascendency A.D. 800 to 1200
79-89 Romesh Dutt view
Chapter VIII Age of the Afghan Rule A.D. 1206 to 1526
89-99 Romesh Dutt view
Chapter IX Condition of the People Under the Afghan Rule
99-106 Romesh Dutt view
Chapter X Age of the Moghal Rule 1526 to 1707
106-116 Romesh Dutt view
Chapter XI Condition of the People Under the Moghal Rule
116-131 Romesh Dutt view
Chapter XII Age of Mahratta Ascendency 1718 to 1818
132-143 Romesh Dutt view
Index
144-146 Romesh Dutt view

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