Ancient India in Its Wider World
Contributors: Grant Parker (Editor); Carla Sinopoli (Editor)
Publisher: Centers for South and Southeast Asia, Th; Centers for South and Southeast Asian Studies/University of Michigan
Published: March 28, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780891480921
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: BCE to c 500 CE; History; History - General History; History: World; India; Asia - India & South Asia; History / India
Description: Drawn from a variety of academic disciplines and perspectives, this volume approaches ancient India both historically and geographically. The primary temporal focus lies in India's "Early Historic" period, from the mid-first millennium BCE through the mid-first millennium CE. The geographic focus is shifted landward rather than seaward and is centered on South Asia rather than the Mediterranean. Contributors examine power and material culture; Mediterranean image making, which looks at Greek and Roman understandings of India; and language and otherness, which explores Indian knowledge and understandings of outsiders. The volume as a whole directs us to the complex webs and networks that throughout Indian history have linked South Asians to each other and to the world beyond the subcontinent. A very wide world indeed.