Early India
Subtitle: from the origins to AD 1300 / Romila Thapar.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 555
Subjects: India -- History -- To 324 B.C; India -- History -- 324 B.C.-1000 A.D; India -- History -- 1000-1526
Notes: "This new book represents a complete rewriting by the author of her hugely successful A History of India, vol. 1"--CIP data sheet.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 542-544) and index.
Table of contents: title: Perceptions of the past; title: Landscapes and peoples; title: Antecedents; title: Towards chiefdoms and kingdoms: c. 1200-600 BC; title: States and cities of the Indo-Gangetic Plain: c. 600-300 BC; title: The emergence of empire: Mauryan India; c. 321-185 BC; title: Of politics and trade: c. 200 BC-AD 300; title: The rise of the mercantile community: c. 200 BC-AD 300; title: Threshold times: c. AD 300-700; title: The peninsula: emerging regional kingdoms; c. AD 500-900; title: The peninsula: establishing authorities and structures; c. AD 900-1300; title: The politics of northern India: c. AD 700-1200; title: Northern India: distributive political economies and regional cultures; c. AD 800-1300.