Dilip K Chakrabarti

The Oxford Companion to Indian Archaeology

The Archaeological Foundations of Ancient India

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Produktbeschreibung

This authoritative work, the first comprehensive study of its kind, traces the evolving archaeological scenario of the Indian subcontinent, area by area, phase by phase, from prehistory to the thirteenth century AD. Using a wide variety of sources, distinguished scholar Dilip K. Chakrabarti provides an in-depth multi-layered archaeological chronicle of the subcontinent.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 700
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 289mm x 230mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1938g
• ISBN-13: 9780195673425
• ISBN-10: 0195673425
• Artikelnr.: 21846014

Autorenporträt

Dilip K. Chakrabarti is Professor of Indian Archaeology and Ancient History, Cambridge University. An eminent figure in South Asian Archaeology, he has undertaken extensive fieldwork in different parts of India, Bangladesh, and Iran. He has taught at several universities in India and abroad. Whilst at Delhi University, he established a departmental museum, and for some years edited the Bulletin of the Indian Society for Prehistoric and Quaternary Studies. He has published about twelve monographs, and has numerous contributions in refereed journals, books, and encyclopedias on South Asian prehistoric, protohistoric, and early historic archaeology.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Prehistory: Chapter 1. Indias Place in the Scheme of Human Evolution
Current thoughts about human evolution
Fossil evidence in China and Java, and its implications for India
Fossil evidence in India
Lower Pleistocene antiquity of stone tools in India
Discussion
Chapter 2. Regional Survey of the Palaeolithic Kashmir and Ladakh
Baluchistan, Sind, NWFP, and Pakistani Panjab
Jammu, Himachal Pradesh, Indian Panjab, Haryana, and Delhi
Rajasthan and Gujarat
Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh
Maharashtra, Goa, and Karnataka
Kerala, Tamilnadu, and Andhra Pradesh
Orissa, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bangladesh, Tripura, and the northeastern states
Bihar, Nepal, and Uttar Pradesh
Chapter 3. The Palaeolithic: Perspectives and Problems
Review of the regional stratigraphic profiles: the Lower, Middle and Upper Palaeolithic
Typological characteristics of the Lower, Middle and Upper Palaeolithic
Socio-economic and cultural reconstructions
Chronology of the various stages
Faunal background
Environmental hypotheses
Palaeolithic art and belief-system
Chapter 4. The Mesolithic Evidence
Regional survey of the data
Chronology
Settlements and economy
Rock-art
Skeletal biology
Chapter 5. The Relevance of Indias Stone Age Past
Part II: The Background, Development, Features, Decline, and Transformation of the Indus Civilization Chapter 1: The Problem of the Beginning of Food-production in India and the Evidence from Mehrgarh
Complexities of the problem
Mehrgarh
Chapter 2: The Growth of First Villages between Baluchistan and GujaratRajasthanHaryana
The problem of environment: climate and the river valleys
Northeast Baluchistan, Quetta valley, Kalat plateau, southern Baluchistan and the Makran coast
The Kirthar piedmont
Bannu plain
The NWFP and Potwar plateau
Sind
Bahawalpur
The Indus plain of Pakistani Panjab
Bikaner, Haryana, Indian Panjab
The Aravallis
Gujarat
The emerging picture
Chapter 3: Origin of the Harappan or Indus civilization
The notion of Early Harappan or early form of the Indus civilization
Transition to the Mature Harappan or the mature form of the Indus civilization
Explanations of the transition
Chapter 4. Sites and Settlements of the Mature Harappan Phase
Regional distribution
Features of the excavated settlements
Does the size of a Harappan site reflect the extent of its urbanism? Chapter 5. Economy
Agriculture
Internal trade and trade routes
External trade and trade routes
Specialized crafts
Chapter 6. Technology
Ceramic technology
Mining and Metallurgy
Production techniques of miscellaneous crafts
Chapter 7. The Writing System, Possible Nature of the Society and State, Religion
Chapter 8. Art
Terracottas
Stone sculpture
Metal sculpture
Painting
Chapter 9. Late Harappan Phase or the Transformation of the Civilization
Regional survey of the evidence
The nature of transformation
Possible causes
How does the Harappan civilization merge in the later Indian development? Part III. The Formation and Development of Village Life in the Non-Harappan Context Chapter 1. Developments in the Northwest and the Himalayan Belt
Baluchistan and Sind
The NWFP
Kashmir
Ladakh, and the Himalayan belt to the east
Chapter 2. Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra
Chapter 3. Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Kerala
and Andhra
Stages of the south Indian Neolithic
The evidence from the excavated sites
Chapter 4. Chhattisgarh, Orissa, West Bengal, the Northeastern States
Chapter 5. Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh
Chapter 6. Haryana and Panjab
Chapter 7. Shared Elements: the Neolithic-Chalcolithic Economy of non-Harappan India
Chapter 8: Regional Beginnings of the Use of Iron
The archaeological evidence
The iron-using context of the megaliths south of the Satpuras
Did the use of iron usher in a new Age in India? Part IV. Archaeology of India between c.7th-6th century ad and c.6th Century ad Chapter 1. The Beginning of Early Historic India
Chapter 2. The Historical Framework of Early Historic Indian Archaeology
Chapter 3. Settlement Contexts
Chapter 4. Pattern of Early Historic Urban Growth and the Problem of ArchaeologyLiterature Correlation
Chapter 5. The Archaeology of Indian Religions: Hinduism and its Iconography
Chapter 6. The Archaeology of Indian Religions: Buddhism, Jainism, and Associated Iconographies
Chapter 7. The Material Basis of Life in Early Historic India: Artefacts
and Technology
Chapter 8. The Material Basis of Life in Early Historic India: Irrigation and Agriculture
Chapter 9. The Material Basis of Life in Early Historic India: Internal Trade and Trade Routes
Chapter 10. The Material Basis of Life in Early Historic India: External Trade and Trade Routes
Part V. Archaeology of India between c.7th Century ad to c.12th13th Century ad Chapter 1. Geographical and Chronological Configurations of the Dynasties
Chapter 2. Settlements and the Problem of Urban Decay
Chapter 3. Technology and Economy
Chapter 4. Inscriptions
Chapter 5. Coins
Chapter 6. Sculpture and Painting
Chapter 7. Architecture
Chapter 8. Religious Framework and Iconographies
Part VI. Some Major Themes Chapter 1. Agriculture
Chapter 2. Metallurgy
Chapter 3. Pottery and Other Industries
Chapter 4. Internal and External Trade
Chapter 5. Religion
Chapter 6. A Geographical Perspective of India¹s Archaeological Development
Appendix 1. A brief history of archaeological research in the country
Appendix 2. The Indo-Aryan and other language issues in Indian archaeology
Appendix 3. The archaeology of the Indian islands: AndamanNicobar and Lakshadvip
Notes
References