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Commentary and elaboration on vedas and description of religious procedures. 900-500 BCE [ 2] Upanishads. Philosophy in response to Vedas and Brahmanas. There are 108 Upnishads, among which 13 are considered the principal ones. 800-400 BCE [ 2] Vedanta. Later commentary on the Vedas, Brahmanas and Upanishads.
Literature of Adi kal (c. before the 15th century CE) was developed in the regions of Kannauj, Delhi, Ajmer stretching up to central India. [4] Prithviraj Raso, an epic poem written by Chand Bardai (1149 – c. 1200), is considered one of the first works in the Bhraj Bhasha literature.Chand Bardai was a court poet of Prithviraj Chauhan, the famous ruler of Delhi and Ajmer during the invasion ...
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy is a non-fiction book by Indian historian Ramachandra Guha. First published by HarperCollins in August 2007. [ 1][ 2] The book covers the history of the India after it gained independence from the British in 1947. [ 1] A revised and expanded edition was published in 2017.
The book was withdrawn from the Indian market by its Indian publisher, [18] [19] Penguin India, who agreed to destroy all the existing copies within six months commencing from February 2014. [16] There was a Streisand effect on the sales of the book and its sales effectively increased. Some bookstores continued to secretly sell the book ...
Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From is a 2018 nonfiction book written by Indian journalist Tony Joseph, [1] [2] [3] that focuses on the ancestors of people living in South Asia today. [4] [5] Joseph goes 65,000 years into the past [6] —when anatomically modern humans first made their way from Africa into the ...
The History and Culture of the Indian People is a series of eleven volumes on the history of India, from prehistoric times to the establishment of the modern state in 1947. Historian Ramesh Chandra Majumdar was the general editor of the series, as well as a major contributor. The entire work took 26 years to complete.
An Advanced History of India is a book on Indian history written by R.C. Majumdar, H.C. Raychaudhuri, and Kalikinkar Datta, first published in 1946. This renowned book consists of two parts. And similarly, according to the periods, the same are divided into more parts. For example, part I, ancient India, the second part of the same volume ...
The following is a list of ancient Indian writers, originating from the Indian subcontinent. Many writers contributed to the large body of early Indian literature (here roughly taken to predate the 13th century Delhi Sultanate), consisting of poetry, drama, and writings on religion, philosophy, linguistics, mathematics and many other topics.