TY - GEN AU - Devy, G. N. & Others Ed. TI - Indians Histories of civilization SN - 9789395853095 U1 - 954 PY - 2023/// CY - New Delhi PB - Aleph Book Company N1 - CONTENTS Introduction xvii G. N. Devy PART I: THE EVOLUTION OF HUMANS AND THEIR LIFE CONDITIONS 1. The Early Indian Population and Population Admixture Partha Pratim Majumder 3 2. The Oxygen Isotope Stages: Human Adaptations during the Last 200,000 Years Ravi Korisettar 6 3. The Migrations that Shaped Indian Demography Tony Joseph 16 4. Rock Shelters and Caves: Prehistoric Settlements Ravi Korisettar 24 5. Microliths before the Holocene Bishnupriya Basak 33 6. Post-glacial Climate Change and its Impact on Life: 18000 YBP to Present Gwen Robbins Schug 36 7. Weather Patterns Sridhar Vajapey 39 8. Holocene Climate from the Perspective of South Asia Dorian Q. Fuller 41 9. Anthropological Man Subhash Walimbe 44 PART II: FOUNDATIONS, EMERGENCE, AND THE DECLINE OF CIVILIZATION 10. Primeval Hunter-Gatherer Societies of India K. Paddayya 49 11. Domestication of Animals in India Arati Deshpande-Mukherjee 57 12. The Nomadic Pastoralists in Prehistory and Protohistory Ajay Dandekar 64 13. Domestication of Plants: Origins and Development of Agriculture Satish Naik 66 14. Prehistoric Agriculture Ravi Korisettar 72 15. The Ideology of the Indus Civilization Akinori Uesugi 84 16. Rise of Urban Habitats Jennifer Bates 87 17. Decline and Transformation of Urban Habitats Jennifer Bates 91 18. Social Formation: Archaeological Scholarship of the Indus Civilization Sudeshna Guha 94 19. The Pre-Vedic and the Vedic Sarasvati Rajesh Kochhar 99 20. Varna and Jati: Consolidation of Social Hierarchy G. N. Devy 116 PART III: THE LANGUAGE MIX AND PHILOSOPHIES IN ANCIENT INDIA 21. Sanskrit, its History, and its Indo-European Background Hans Henrich Hock 123 22. Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Ancient Dialects Madhav Deshpande 136 23. Contact with Indo-European/Indo-Iranian Languages Meera Visvanathan 141 24. Vedic Tradition Shrikant Bahulkar 149 25. Vedic Divinities Mugdha Gadgil 152 26. Scientific Achievements of Traditional India Hans Henrich Hock 156 27. Buddhism Pradip Gokhale 174 28. Buddhism in Early India Naina Dayal 178 29. Non-Pali Buddhist Literature Lata Deokar 182 30. The Emergence and Spread of Jainism Paul Dundas 188 31. Philosophy through Controversies and Commentaries Pradip Gokhale 192 32. Early Inscriptions Andrew Ollett 198 33. Pali Language and Literature Mahesh A. Deokar 202 34. Prakrit Literature Andrew Ollett 208 35. The Brahmi Script and Indian Languages Thomas Trautmann 212 36. Ideas and Metaphysical Foundations of 'Dravidian' Stalin Rajangam 229 37. Dravidian Language Family K. Rangan 233 38. Language Families of India Other than Indo-Aryan Anvita Abbi 237 PART IV: CULTURES, SUB-NATIONALITIES, AND REGION 39. Medieval Tamil India: Pre-Vijayanagara Phase T. K. Venkatasubramanian 245 40. Early Kannada Literature Andrew Ollett and Sarah Pierce Taylor 249 41. Medieval Karnataka Manu V. Devadevan 252 42. Lingayatism Shivanand Kanavi 256 43. Early History of Kerala in Social Perspective Rajan Gurukkal 263 44. Early and Medieval Kerala Kesavan Veluthat 267 45. Early Telugu Literature Harshita Mruthinti Kamath 272 46. Telangana: An Overview of the Medieval Period Salma Ahmed Farooqui 275 47. Cultural Heterogeneity Telangana Bhukhya Bhangya 278 48. The Modern South Rajmohan Gandhi 292 49. The Kerala of Narayana Guru : A Historical Perspective of Ideas and Society George Thadathil 295 50. Christianity in India before the Protestant Evangelicals Ines G. Županov 300 51. Goa Rochelle Pinto 304 52. Cultural Confluence in Pre-modern Deccan Shraddha Kumbhojkar 309 53. Maharashtra before Shivaji Rahul Magar 312 54. Tribal History of Middle India Shyamrao Koreti 320 55. Progressive Thought in Maharashtra Devkumar Ahire 323 56. Ancient and Medieval Gujarat Aparna Kapadia 326 57. Nomadic Communities in Western India Tanuja Kothial 330 58. Rajasthan Rima Hooja 333 59. Sindh Manan Ahmed 337 60. The Northeast: Prehistoric and Ancient Past Manjil Hazarika 342 61. Assam: The Long View Arupjyoti Saikia 349 62. Sikkim Anira Phipon Lepcha 353 63. Multilingual Pre-modern Bengal Thibaut d'Hubert 359 64. Late Medieval and Early Modern Bengal Ujjayan Bhattacharya 364 65. Odisha in Pre-modern Times Pritish Acharya 368 66. The Bhakti Movement: Pre-colonial Social Transition G. N. Devy 373 67. The Emergence and Spread of Sufi Thought in Medieval India Richard M. Eaton 68. India's Ties with the Arab World and Iran Abhay Kumar 384 69. Islam in South Asia Reyaz Ahmad 389 70. Punjab Rajkumar Hans 393 71. The Western Himalayan Region Chetan Singh 398 72. Northern India: Medieval and Colonial Hitendra K. Patel 403 73. Medieval Uttar Pradesh Mayank Kumar 407 74. Delhi: The Last Millennium Sunny Kumar 410 75. The Idea of Delhi Narayani Gupta 413 PART V: COLONIALISM 76. The Impact of Colonial Rule on the Indian Economy Sunny Kumar 419 77. The Asiatic Society and its Impact on Indian History Thomas Trautmann 422 78. Interaction with Colonial Ideas Pradip Datta 425 79. Print Technology and Modernity Urvashi Butalia 430 80. Perceptions of Colonialism (1800-1950) Mohinder Singh 433 81. Colonial Forest Laws and the Forest-dwellers Dhirendra Datt Dangwal 438 PART VI: TOWARDS FEDERALISM-SOCIAL AND POLITICAL MOVEMENTS 82. Adivasi Movements in Santal and Munda Regions Vasundhara Jairath 443 83. Caste and Reforms: Modern Period Rinku Lamba 448 84. B. R. Ambedkar and the Making of Modern India Rahul Kosambi 452 85. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Tridip Suhrud 457 86. Ambedkar and Gandhi: Visions for Modern India Nishikant Kolge 461 87. Emergence of the Idea of Freedom (1900-1947) Mohinder Singh 464 88. The Freedom Struggle: The Early Phase Vinay Lal 467 89. The Freedom Struggle: The Final Phase Vinay Lal 473 90. India's Struggle for Independence: The Last Phase Sucheta Mahajan 479 PART VII: INDIA SINCE INDEPENDENCE 91. The Rise of Identity Politics Amir Ali 485 92. The 1947 Partition of India Rajmohan Gandhi 488 93. The Partition of India Sugata Bose 491 94. Linguistic State Formation (1900-2000) Asha Sarangi 494 95. The Working of the Constitution Nivedita Menon 496 96. Nehruvian India Vinay Lal 500 97. India and the Making of Bangladesh Srinath Raghavan 506 98. Urbanism in India Narayani Gupta 509 99. Identity Politics since Independence Aditya Nigam 515 100. People's Movements since Independence Krishna Menon 520 101. India since Liberalization Kumar Ketkar 524 Afterword Vinay Lal 528 Contributors 551 Notes and References 555 Bibliography 615 Acknowledgements 620 ER -