دانلود کتاب The Indians: Histories of a Civilization

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CONTENTS
Introduction
PART I: THE EVOLUTION OF HUMANS AND THEIR LIFE CONDITIONS
1. The Early Indian Population and Population Admixture
2. The Oxygen Isotope Stages: Human Adaptations during the Last 200,000 Years
3. The Migrations that Shaped Indian Demography
4. Rock Shelters and Caves: Prehistoric Settlements
5. Microliths before the Holocene
6. Post-glacial Climate Change and its Impact on Life: 18000 YBP to Present
7. Weather Patterns
8. Holocene Climate from the Perspective of South Asia
9. Anthropological Man
PART II: FOUNDATIONS, EMERGENCE, AND THE DECLINE OF CIVILIZATION
10. Primeval Hunter–Gatherer Societies of India
11. Domestication of Animals in India
12. The Nomadic Pastoralists in Prehistory and Protohistory
13. Domestication of Plants: Origins and Development of Agriculture
14. Prehistoric Agriculture
15. The Ideology of the Indus Civilization
16. Rise of Urban Habitats
17. Decline and Transformation of Urban Habitats
18. Social Formation: Archaeological Scholarship of the Indus Civilization
19. The Pre-Vedic and the Vedic Sarasvati
20. Varna and Jati: Consolidation of Social Hierarchy
PART III: THE LANGUAGE MIX AND PHILOSOPHIES IN ANCIENT INDIA
21. Sanskrit, its History, and its Indo-European Background
22. Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Ancient Dialects
23. Contact with Indo-European/Indo-Iranian Languages
24. Vedic Tradition
25. Vedic Divinities
26. Scientific Achievements of Traditional India
27. Buddhism
28. Buddhism in Early India
29. Non-Pali Buddhist Literature
30. The Emergence and Spread of Jainism
31. Philosophy through Controversies and Commentaries
32. Early Inscriptions
33. Pali Language and Literature
34. Prakrit Literature
35. The Brahmi Script and Indian Languages
36. Ideas and Metaphysical Foundations of ‘Dravidian’
37. Dravidian Language Family
38. Language Families of India Other than Indo-Aryan
PART IV: CULTURES, SUB-NATIONALITIES, AND REGION
39. Medieval Tamil India: Pre-Vijayanagara Phase
40. Early Kannada Literature
41. Medieval Karnataka
42. Lingayatism
43. Early History of Kerala in Social Perspective
44. Early and Medieval Kerala
45. Early Telugu Literature
46. Telangana: An Overview of the Medieval Period
47. Cultural Heterogeneity Telangana
48. The Modern South
49. The Kerala of Narayana Guru: A Historical Perspective of Ideas and Society
50. Christianity in India before the Protestant Evangelicals
51. Goa
52. Cultural Confluence in Pre-modern Deccan
53. Maharashtra before Shivaji
54. Tribal History of Middle India
55. Progressive Thought in Maharashtra
56. Ancient and Medieval Gujarat
57. Nomadic Communities in Western India
58. Rajasthan
59. Sindh
60. The Northeast: Prehistoric and Ancient Past
61. Assam: The Long View
62. Sikkim
63. Multilingual Pre-modern Bengal
64. Late Medieval and Early Modern Bengal
65. Odisha in Pre-modern Times
66. The Bhakti Movement: Pre-colonial Social Transition
67. The Emergence and Spread of Sufi Thought in Medieval India
68. India’s Ties with the Arab World and Iran
69. Islam in South Asia
70. Punjab
71. The Western Himalayan Region
72. Northern India: Medieval and Colonial
73. Medieval Uttar Pradesh
74. Delhi: The Last Millennium
75. The Idea of Delhi
PART V: COLONIALISM
76. The Impact of Colonial Rule on the Indian Economy
77. The Asiatic Society and its Impact on Indian History
78. Interaction with Colonial Ideas
79. Print Technology and Modernity
80. Perceptions of Colonialism (1800–1950)
81. Colonial Forest Laws and the Forest-dwellers
PART VI: TOWARDS FEDERALISM—SOCIAL AND POLITICAL MOVEMENTS
82. Adivasi Movements in Santal and Munda Regions
83. Caste and Reforms: Modern Period
84. B. R. Ambedkar and the Making of Modern India
85. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
86. Ambedkar and Gandhi: Visions for Modern India
87. Emergence of the Idea of Freedom (1900–1947)
88. The Freedom Struggle: The Early Phase
89. The Freedom Struggle: The Final Phase
90. India’s Struggle for Independence: The Last Phase
PART VII: INDIA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
91. The Rise of Identity Politics
92. The 1947 Partition of India
93. The Partition of India
94. Linguistic State Formation (1900–2000)
95. The Working of the Constitution
96. Nehruvian India
97. India and the Making of Bangladesh
98. Urbanism in India
99. Identity Politics since Independence
100. People’s Movements since Independence
101. India since Liberalization
Afterword
Contributors
Notes and References
Bibliography
Acknowledgements