FRONTIERS
Lattimore, O., The Inner Asian Frontiers of China, repr. (Oxford, 1988)
Khazanov, A. M., Nomads and the Outside World, 2nd edn (Madison, 1994)
Whittakar, R. C., Frontiers of the Roman Empire (London, 1994)
TRANSPORTATION
Deloche, J., Transport and Communication in India Prior to Steam Locomotion, vol.I: Land Transport; vol. II: Water Transport (Delhi, 1993; 1994)
POPULATION
Cavalli-Sforza, L. L., Piazza, A. and Menozzi, P., The History and Geography of Human Genes (New Jersey, 1994)
Guha, S., Health and Population in South Asia (Delhi, 2000)
CATEGORIES OF SOCIETIES – HUNTER-GATHERERS, PASTORAL1STS, PEASANTS, TOWNSMEN
Sahlins, M., Tribesmen (New Jersey, 1968)
Kavoori, P. S., Pastoralism in Expansion (Delhi, 1999)
Sontheimer, G. D., Pastoral Deities in Western India (Delhi, 1993)
Diamond, J., Guns, Germs and Steel (New York, 1999)
Fried, M. H., The Evolution of Political Society (New York, 1967)
Claessen, H. J. M. and Skalnik, P. (eds), The Early State (The Hague, 1978)
Claessen, H. J. M. and Skalnik, P. (eds), The Study of the State (The Hague, 1981)
Allchin, B. (ed.), Living Traditions: Studies in the Ethnoarchaeology of South Asia (Delhi, 1994)
THE CREATION OF CASTES
Bose, N. K., The Structure of Hindu Society (Calcutta, 1975)
Klass, M., Caste: The Emergence of the South Asian Social System (Philadelphia, 1980)
Gupta, D. (ed.), Social Stratification (Delhi, 1992)
Mandelbaum, D., Society in India, vols I and II (Berkeley, Calif., 1970)
3 Antecedents
PREHISTORIC BEGINNINGS
Agrawal, D. P., The Archaeology of India (London, 1982)
Allchin, R. and Allchin, B., Origins of a Civilization (Delhi, 1997)
Chakrabarti, D. K., India, An Archaeological History (Delhi, 1999)
Ghosh, A. (ed.), An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology, vols I and II (Delhi, 1989)
Neumayer, E., Lines on Stone: Prehistoric Rock Art of India (Delhi, 1993)
Mathpal, Y., The Prehistoric Rock Art of Bhimbetka, Central India (Delhi, 1984)
Possehl, G. L., Radio-Carbon Dates for South Asian Archaeology (Philadelphia, 1989)
Jacobson, J. (ed.), Studies in the Archaeology of India and Pakistan (New Delhi, 1986)
Kennedy, K. A. R. and Possehl, G. L. (eds), Studies in the Archaeology and Palaeo-anthropology of South Asia (New Delhi, 1984)
THE FIRST URBANIZATION – CITIES OF THE INDUS CIVILIZATION
Possehl, G. L. (ed.), Ancient Cities of the Indus (Delhi, 1979)
Possehl, G. L. (ed.), Harappan Civilization – a Recent Perspective, 2nd edn (Delhi, 1993)
Meadow, R. (ed.), Harappa Excavations 1986-1990: a Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Third Millennium Vrbanism (Madison, 1992)
Mughal, M. R., Ancient Cholistan (Lahore, 1997)
Parpola, A., Deciphering the Indus Script (Cambridge, 1944)
Mahadevan, I., ‘The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables’, in Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India, 77 (New Delhi, 1977)
Ratnagar, S., Enquiries into the Political Organization of Harappan Society (Pune, 1991)
Ratnagar, S., The End of the Great Harappan Tradition (Delhi, 2000)
Ratnagar, S., Understanding Harappa (Delhi, 2001)
Kohl, P. (ed.), The Bronze Age Civilization of Central Asia (New York, 1981)
NEOLITHIC AND CHALCOLITHIC CULTURES, OTHER THAN IN THE NORTH-WEST
Dhavlikar, M. K., The First Farmers of the Deccan (Pune, 1988)
Eliade, M., Shamanism (New Jersey, 1974)
Allchin, F. R., Neolithic Cattle Keepers of South India (Cambridge, 1963)
Roy, T. N., The Ganges Civilization (New Delhi, 1983)
Tripatbi, V., The Painted Grey Ware: An Iron Age Culture of Northern India (Delhi, 1976)
Gaur, R. C., Excavations at Atranjikhera (New Delhi, 1983)
Chattopadhyaya, D. P., History of Science and Technology in Ancient India (Calcutta, 1986)
Atre, S., The Archetypal Mother (Pune, 1987)
MEGALITHIC BURIALS
Gururaja Rao, B. K., The Megalithic Culture in South India (Prasaranga, 1981)
Sundara, A., The Early Chamber Tombs of South India (Delhi, 1975)
Deo, S. B., Problem of South Indian Megaliths (Dharwar, 1973)
Moorti, U. S., Megalithic Culture of South India (Varanasi, 1994)
4 Towards Chiefdoms and Kingdoms
NARRATIVES OF BEGINNINGS
Brockington, J. L., The Sanskrit Epics (Leiden, 1998)
Brockington, J. L., Righteous Rama (Delhi, 1984)
Bulcke, C., Ramakatha (Varanasi, 1971)
Sukhthankar V. S., On the Meaning of the Mahabharata (Bombay, 1954)
Goldman, R. P., Gods, Priests and Warriors. The Bhrigus of the Mahabharata (New York, 1977)
Pargiter, F. E., The Ancient Indian Historical Tradition (London, 1922)
Deshpande, M. M. and Hook, P. (eds), Aryan and Non-Aryan in India (Ann Arbor, 1979)
Burrow, T., The Sanskrit Language (London, 1973)
Heninge, D. P., The Chronology of Oral Tradition (Oxford, 1974)
Ong, W. J., Orality and Literacy (London, 1982)
Lad, G., Mahabharata and Archaeological Evidence (Pune, 1983)
THE VEDIC CORPUS
Gonda, J., Vedic Literature (Wiesbaden, 1975)
Banerji, S. C., Dharmasutras, A Study in their Origin and Development (Calcutta, 1962)
Witzel, M. (ed.), Inside the Texts Beyond the Texts: New Approaches to the Study of the Vedas (Cambridge, 1997)
Tripathi, V., The Painted Grey Ware: An Iron Age Culture of Northern India (Delhi, 1976)
Raychaudhuri, H. C., The Political History of Ancient India (Delhi, 1996)
History and Culture of the Indian People, vol. 1: The Vedic Age (Bombay, 1965)
Dandekar, R. N., Vedic Bibliography (Pune, 1946)
Pollet, G. (ed.), India and the Ancient World (Leuven, 1987)
Caillat, C. (ed.), Dialectes dans les littératures Indo-Aryennes (Paris, 1989)
THE CONTEXT OF THE RIG-VEDA
Masica, C. P., Defining a Linguistic Area: South Asia (Chicago, 1976)
Mallory, J. P., In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth (London, 1989)
Deshpande, M. M., Sociolinguistic Attitudes in India: An Historical Reconstruction (Ann Arbor, 1979)
Emeneau, M. B., Language and Linguistic Area (Stanford, 1980)
Kuiper, F. B. J., Aryans in the Rigveda (Amsterdam, 1991)
Rau, W., The Meaning of ‘Pur’ in Vedic Literature (Munich, 1976)
Lincoln, B., Priests, Warriors and Cattle (Los Angeles, 1981)
Bryant, E., The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture (Delhi, 2000)
SOCIETIES IN THE VEDIC CORPUS
Erdosy, G. (ed.), The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia: Language, Material Culture, Ethnicity (Berlin, 1995)
Thapar, R., ‘From Lineage to State’, in History and Beyond (Delhi, 2000)
Trautmann. T. R., Dravidian Kinship (Cambridge, 1981)
Sharma, R. S., Material Culture and Social Formation in Ancient India (Delhi, 1983)
Chattopadhyaya, D. P., History of Science and Technology in Ancient India, vols I and II (Calcutta 1986; 1991)
Gaur, R. C., The Excavations at Atranjikhera: Early Civilization in the Ganges Basin (Delhi, 1983)
Kochar, R. The Vedic People (New Delhi, 2000)
CHIEFS AND KINGS
Gonda, J., Ancient Indian Kingship from the Religious Point of View (Leiden, 1969)
Roy, K., The Emergence of Monarchy in North India (Delhi, 1994)
Mauss, M., The Gift (New York, 1967)
Sharma, R. S., Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India, 3rd edn (Delhi, 1991)
Singh, S. D., Ancient Indian Warfare with Special Reference to
the Vedic Period (Leiden, 1965)
Earle, T. (ed.), Chiefdoms: Power, Economy and Ideology (Cambridge, 1991)
INCIPIENT CASTE
Kosambi, D. D., Introduction to the Study of Indian History (Bombay, 1956)
Karve, I., Hindu Society – an Interpretation (Poona, 1961)
Dumont, L., Homo Hierarchicus (Chicago, 1970)
SACRIFICE AS RITUAL AND AS A FORM OF SOCIAL EXCHANGE
Dandekar, R. N., Vedic Mythological Tracts (Delhi, 1979)
Staal, F., Agni (Berkeley, Calif., 1981)
Gonda, J., The Ritual Sutras (Wiesbaden, 1977)
Heesterman, J. C., The Ancient Indian Royal Consecration (The Hague, 1957)
Keith, A. B., Religion and Philosophy of the Vedas and Upanishads (Cambridge, Mass., 1925)
Hubert, H. and Mauss, M., Sacrifice – its Nature and Function (Chicago, 1964)
Lincoln, B., Death, War and Sacrifice (Chicago, 1991)
Some Sources in Translation
Griffiths, R. T. H., Hymns of the Rigveda (Varanasi, 1896-97)
Geldner, K. F., Der Rigveda Samhita, German text (Cambridge, Mass., 1951)
Keith, A. B., The Rigveda Brahmanas (Cambridge, Mass., 1920)
Eggeling, J., Shatapatha Brahmana (Oxford, 1898)
Radhakrishnan, S., The Principal Upanisads (London, 1953)
Olivelle, P., The Dharmasutras (Oxford, 1999)
Darmesteter, J., The Zend Avesta, repr. (Varanasi, 1969)
5 States and Cities of the Indo-Gangetic Plain
STATES AND CITIES
Thapar, R., From Lineage to State, 2nd edn (Delhi, 1996)
Makkhan Lal, Settlement History and the Rise of Civilization in the Ganga-Yamuna Doab from 1500 BC-Ad 300 (Delhi, 1984)
Sharma, R. S., Material Culture and Social Formation in Ancient India (Delhi, 1983)
Fried, M., The Evolution of Political Society (New York, 1967)
Claessen, H. J. M. and Skalnik, P. (eds), The Early State (The Hague, 1978)
Claessen, H. J. M. and Skalnik, P. (eds), The Study of the State (The Hague, 1981)
Law, B. C., Geography of Early Buddhism, repr. (Varanasi, 1973)
THE SECOND URBANIZATION: THE GANGES PLAIN
Allchin, F. R., The Archaeology of Early Historic South Asia: The Emergence of Cities and States (Cambridge, 1995)
Chakrabarti, D. K., The Early Use of Iron in India (Delhi, 1992)
Erdosy, G., Urbanization in Early Historic India, BAR (Oxford, 1988)
Ghosh, A., The City in Early Historical India (Shimla, 1973)
Jha, S. K., Beginning of Urbanization in Early Historic India (Patna, 1998)
Marshall, J., Taxila (Cambridge, 1951)
Sharma, G. R., The Excavations at Kaushambi 1957-59 (Allahabad, 1960)
Roy, T. N., The Ganges Civilization (New Delhi, 1983)
Sarao, K. T. S., Urban Centres and Urbanisation as Reflected in the Pali Vinaya and Sutta Pitakas (Delhi, 1990)
Dani, A. H., The Historic City of Taxila (Paris, 1986)
Chakrabarti, D. K., The Archaeology of Ancient Indian Cities (New Delhi, 1995)
Thakur, V. K., Urbanisation in Ancient India (New Delhi, 1981)
GANA-SANGHAS – CHIEFDOMS AND OLIGARCHIES
Law, B. C., Some Kshatriya Tribes in Ancient India, repr. (Delhi, 1975)
Wagle, N. N., Society at the Time of the Buddha, 2nd edn (Bombay, 1996)
Chanana, D., Slavery in Ancient India (Delhi, 1960)
Sharma, R. S., Sudras in Ancient India, 2nd edn (Delhi, 1980)
Sharma, J. P., Republics in Ancient India (Leiden, 1968)
Jha, H. N., The Licchavis (Varanasi, 1970)
KINGDOMS AND THE PRE-EMINENCE OF MAGADHA
Raychaudhuri, H. C., Political History of Ancient India (Calcutta, 1965); with an update by B. N. Mukherjee (Calcutta, 1996)
Kosambi, D. D., The Culture and Civilization of Ancient India in Historical Outline (London, 1966)
Shrimali, K. M., History of Pancala to c. AD 500, vols 1 and 11 (Delhi, 1985)
NORTH-WEST INDIA AND ALEXANDER
Lane Fox, R., Alexander the Great (New York, 1974)
Smith, V., Early History of India from 600 BC to the Muhammadan Conquest, 4th edn (Oxford, 1957)
Bosworth, A. B., A Historical Commentary on Arrian’s History of Alexander (Oxford, 1995)
EARLY TRADE
Allan, J., Catalogue of Indian Coins in the British Museum. Coins of Ancient India, repr. (London, 1967)
Mitchiner, M., The Origins of Indian Coinage (London, 1973)
Gupta, P. L. and Hardekar, T. R., Indian Silver Punch-Marked Coins of the Magadha-Maurya-Karshapana Series (Anjaner, 1985)
Fick, R., Social Organization of North-eastern India in the Buddha’s Time, repr. (Delhi, 1972)
Nath, V., Dana: Gift System in Ancient India (600 BC to AD 300) (Delhi, 1987)
RELIGIONS AND IDEOLOGIES: QUESTIONS AND RESPONSES
Lamotte, E., History of Indian Buddhism (Louvain, 1976; 1988 (tr.))
Ling, T., The Buddha (Harmondsworth, 1988)
Bechert, H. (ed.), The Dating of the Historical Buddha, Vols 1-3 (Göttingen, 1992-97)
Chakravarti, U., The Social Dimensions of Early Buddhism (Delhi, 1987)
Frauwallner, E., The Earliest Vinaya and the Beginnings of Buddhist Literature (Rome, 1956)
Jayatilleke, K. N., Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge (London, 1963; Delhi, 1956)
Pande, G. C., Studies in the Origins of Buddhism (Allahabad, 1957)
Horner, I. B., Women under Primitive Buddhism (London, 1930)
Dundas, P., The Jainas (London, 1992)
Basham, A. L., The History and Doctrine of the Ajivikas (London, 1951)
Chattopadhyoya, D. P. Lakayata (Delhi, 1955)
Some Sources in Translation
Woodward F. L., and Hare, E. M., Anguttara Nikaya, repr. (Oxford, 1995)
Max Müller, F., Dhammapada, repr. (Delhi, 1965)
Rhys Davids, T. W., Digha Nikaya, 3rd edn (London, 1951)
Oldenberg, H. and Rhys Davids, T. W., Vinaya Pitaka, repr. (Delhi 1965)
Jacobi, H., Jaina Sutras, repr. (Delhi, 1964)
McCrindle, J. W., Ancient India as Described by Ktesias the Knidian, repr. (Delhi, 1973)
McCrindle, J. W., Ancient India as Described in Classical Literature (Westminster, 1901)
McCrindle, J. W., The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great, repr. (New York, 1972)
Ghosh, A., An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology (Delhi, 1989)
6 The Emergence of Empire: Mauryan India
THE MAURYAS AND THEIR WORLD
Nilakanta Sastri, K. A. (ed.), The Age of the Nandas and Mauryas (Varanasi, 1952)
Bongard-Levin, G., Mauryan India (Delhi, 1985)
Thapar, R., Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas, 2nd edn (Delhi, 1997)
Dandamaev, N. A. and Lukonin, V. G., The Culture and Social Institutions of Ancient Iran (Cambridge, 1989)
Frye, R., The History of Ancient Iran (Munich, 1984)
Kaittunen, K., India in Early Greek Literature (Helsinki, 1989)
Rostovtzeff, M. I., The Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World (Oxford, 1941)
Sherwin-White, S. and Kuhrt, A. (eds), From Samarkhand to Sardis (London, 1993)
Chattopadhyaya, S., The Achaemenids and India, 2nd edn (Delhi, 1974)
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EMPIRE
Trautmann, T. R., Kautilya and the Arthasastra (Leiden, 1971)
Kosambi, D. D., Indian Numismatics (Delhi, 1981)
Marshall, J., Taxila (Cambridge, 1951)
Salomon, R., Indian Epigraphy (Delhi, 1998)
Dani, A. H., Indian Palaeography (Oxford, 1963)
Gupta, P. L., A Bibliography of the Hoard of Punch-Marked Coins in Ancient India (Bombay, 1955)
WELDING A SUBCONTINENTAL SOCIETY
Thapar, R., The Mauryas Revisited (Calcutta, 1988)
Sharma, R. S., Sudras in Ancient India, rev. edn (Delhi, 1980)
Derret, J. D., Religion, Law
and the State in India (London, 1968)
Lingat, R., The Classical Law of India (Berkeley, 1973)
ADMINISTRATION AND EMPIRE
Thapar, R., The Mauryas Revisited (Calcutta, 1988)
Ghoshal, U. N., The Agrarian System in Ancient India (Calcutta, 1930)
Fox, R. G., Realm and Region in Traditional India (New Delhi, 1977)
Claessen, H. and Skalnik, P. (eds), The Early State (The Hague, 1978)
Ray, N. R., Maurya and Shunga Art (Calcutta, 1945)
ASHOKA’S DHAMMA
Lingat, R., Royautés Bouddhiques, part 1 (Paris, 1989)
Sircar, D. C., Ashokan Studies (Calcutta, 1979)
Tambiah, S. J., World Conqueror and World Renouncer (Cambridge, 1976)
Mukherjee, B. N., Studies in the Aramaic Edicts of Asoka (Calcutta, 1984)
Some Sources in Translation
Kangle, R. P., Kautiliya Arthasastra, 3 vols (Bombay, 1965)
Strong, J. S., The Legend of King Asoka (New Jersey, 1983)
McCrindle, J. W., Ancient India as Described by Megasthenes and Arrian (Calcutta, 1877)
Bloch, J., Les Inscriptions d’Asoka (Paris, 1950)
Hultzsch, E., Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, vol. 1: The Inscriptions of Asoka, repr. (Delhi, 1969)
Pargiter, F. E., The Purana Texts of the Dynasties of the Kali Age, repr. (Varanasi, 1962)
Geiger, W., The Mahavamsa (London, 1964)
Przyluski, J., La Légende de l’Empereur Acoka (Paris, 1923)
Coulson, M., Three Sanskrit Plays (Harmondsworth, 1981)
7 Of Politics and Trade
SHUNGAS, KHARAVELA, OLIGARCHIES
Raychaudhuri, H. C., Political History of Ancient India, commentary B. N. Mukherjee (Delhi, 1996)
Lahiri, B., Indigenous States of Northern India circa 200 BC to 320 AD (Calcutta, 1974)
Dasgupta, K. K., A Tribal History of Ancient India: a Numismatic Approach (Calcutta, 1974)
INDO-GREEKS AND SHAKAS
Narain, A. K., The Indo-Greeks (Oxford, 1957)
Guillaume, O., Analysis of Reasonings in Archaeology (Delhi, 1990)
Guillaume, O., Graeco-Bactrian and Indian Coins (Delhi, 1991)
Bernard, P. et al., Fouilles d’Ai Khanoum, vols I-VII (Paris, 1973-87)
Mukherjee, B. N., Mathura and its Society – the Saka-Pahlava Phase (Calcutta, 1981)
Van Lohuizen de Leeuw, J. E., The Scythian Period (Leiden, 1949)
SHAKAS, PARTHIANS, KUSHANAS AND KSHATRAPAS
Basham, A. L. (ed.), Papers on the Date of Kaniska (Leiden, 1968)
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