Prehistoric Ancient and Hindu India

About The Book : This book is about the prehistoric, ancient and Hindu India, and covers several aspects such as physical features of India, the races of India and their languages, earlier Indo-Aryans and the Dravidians, Vedic Literature, the Epic Literature of India. The book also talks about Jainism, Buddhism. Besides, sixteen kingdoms of the north, the Persian conquest of northwestern India, the Maurya empire, Greek invasions, Dravidian dynasties of the South, the culture of northern India, Gupta empire of northern India, southern dynasties of the early medieval period, early medieval culture of southern India, the origin of the Rajputs and the rise of the Gurjara empire, the early medieval kingdoms of north-eastern India, the late medieval dynasties of the south, the medieval history of Kasmira, and the Muhammadan conquest of northern India are some of the topics of the book. In short, the book covers an ocean of information. About The Author : Rakhal Das Banerji, also Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay, (1885 –1930), was an Indian archaeologist and an officer of the Archeological Survey of India (ASI). In 1919, he became the second ASI officer deputed to survey the site of Mohenjo-daro by Sir John Marshall, director-general of the ASI, and returned there in the 1922–1923 season. He was the first person to propose the remote antiquity of the site—which he did in a letter to Marshall in 1923—and in effect of what later came to be called the Indus Valley Civilisation. After leaving the ASI, he held the Manindra Chandra Nandy professorship of Ancient Indian History and Culture at the Banaras Hindu University from 1928 until his premature death in 1930 The Title 'Prehistoric Ancient and Hindu India written/authored/edited by R. D. Banerji', published in the year 2022. The ISBN 9788121265454 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 361 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Social Studies. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-