India /
Wolpert, Stanley A.,1927-
Berkeley : University of California Press,
c1991.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-262) and index.
River -- Heat -- Monsoon rains -- Mountain walls -- Pre-Aryan urbanization -- Aryan conquests and emerging synthesis -- Ancient imperial unification and its limits -- Islamic conquests -- Westernization and modernization -- Young India's revolutions and reforms -- Impact of Mahatma Gandhi -- Yoga and Shaivism -- Mother Goddess worship -- Nonviolent Buddhism and Jainism -- Laws of action and reincarnation -- Devotional Vaishnavism -- Higher Hindu philosophy -- Islam in India -- Sikhism -- Modernist religious movements -- Caste and class -- Untouchability -- Family -- Roles of women -- Village life -- Urban revolution -- Dance, drama, and music -- Worship in bronze and stone -- Caves, temple and regal art, and architecture -- Art of literature -- Scientific contributions -- Kingship and democracy -- Economic planning and development -- Foreign policy -- Future.