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 1 Jan 2017 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Chronological Tables for Southern India from the Sixth Century A. D.
By Robert Sewell
Printed by E.Keys at The Government Press - 1881

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 26 Dec 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
India in Primitive Christianity
By Arthur Lillie
Published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., London - 1909

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 16 Dec 2016 Article/Essay
Essay:
How India went from World’s Education Capital to Depths of Illiteracy - Part I
By Sahana Singh
IndiaFacts - 6 December 2016

Just a thousand years ago, India was dotted with universities across its length and breadth where international students flocked to gain credentials in advanced educ... Read More
 16 Dec 2016 Article/Essay
Essay:
Robert Bruce Foote: The father of India’s prehistory
By Deepa Kandaswamy
Live Mint - 16 December 2016

In the mid-19th century, Foote almost single-handedly tried to reconstruct India's unwritten past.

In 1859, Charles Darwin published the theory of natural selection in his book, “Origin ... Read More
 16 Dec 2016 Article/Essay
Article:
A discovery that changed the antiquity of humankind who lived in Indian subcontinent
By T. S. Subramanian
The Hindu - May 27,2013

One hundred and fifty years ago, on May 30, 1863, young geologist Robert Bruce Foote bent down and picked up a stone tool on the Parade Ground at Pallavaram ... Read More
 16 Dec 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Indian Prehistoric And Protohistoric Antiquities
By Robert Bruce Foote
Printed by The Superintendent, Government Press, Madras - 1916

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 5 Dec 2016
Gold Coin Showing King Chandragupta II as an Archer

Gupta period
ca. 376–414
India
Gold

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 5 Dec 2016 New Books
New Book Release:
Treasures of the Gupta Empire
A Catalogue of Coins of the Gupta Dynasty
By Sanjeev Kumar

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This book covers the history and the entire Coinage of the Gupta Dynasty from the start in 319 AD to it's end in 543 AD. It also includes the Coi... Read More
 20 Nov 2016 Article/Essay
Essay:
How Chanakya Dealt With Fake Currency And Corruption
By Sumedha Verma Ojha
Swarajya - November 18, 2016

Chanakya ultimately faced the same problems as the current government is facing in the present with corruption, counterfeiting and tax evasions. Flooding the economy with fake coins wo... Read More
 10 Oct 2016 Article/Essay
Essay:
Chanakya and Machiavelli – Two Realists in Comparison
By Jaideep A.Prabhu

“Politics,” Ronald Reagan once said, “is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.” Today, the former US president’s words may seem trit... Read More
 20 Aug 2016 Article/Essay
Article:

Why is the manuscript of Arthashastra in the Oriental Research Institute at Mysore so important?...

..."Until it was identified from a manuscript by Shamashastry, Chanakya’s opus was know only from references."

The Oriental Research Institute (ORI), set up in 1891 by the then Maharaja... Read More
 20 Aug 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Kautilya Arthashastra
Translated by R. Shamasastry
Printed at The Government Press, Bangalore - 1915

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 20 Aug 2016 Article/Essay
Article:
How Kautilya’s Arthashastra Shaped The Telling Of Ancient Indian History
By Sumedha Verma Ojha
Swarajya - August 19, 2016

The Arthashastra is so much a part of modern Indian vocabulary on politics, economics and society that it is hard to imagine that this was a book unknown to the Eng... Read More
 29 Jul 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Chandragupta Maurya
By Purushottam Lal Bhargava
Foreword by Dr.Radha Kumud Mookerji
Published by The Upper India Publishing House, Lucknow - 1935

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 6 Mar 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Age of Imperial Unity
The history and culture of the Indian people
Foreword by K.M.Munshi
General Editor : R.C. Majumdar
Assistant Editor: A.D. Pusalker
Published by Bharathi Vidya Bhavan, Bombay - 1951

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 9 Feb 2016 Article/Essay
Archaeological Report:
Excavations at RAKHIGARHI [1997-98 to 1999-2000]
Dr. Amarendra Nath
Archaeological Survey of India

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The present report unfolds discovery of the earliest civilization of South Asia that flourished at Rakhigarhi, Haryana India du... Read More
 9 Feb 2016 Article/Essay
Article:
Rakhigarhi, the biggest Harappan site
By T. S. Subramanian
The Hindu - March 27, 2014

Bigger than Mohenjo-daro, claims expert

The discovery of two more mounds in January at the Harappan site of Rakhigarhi in Hisar district, Haryana, has led to archaeologists establishing it as the bigg... Read More
 9 Feb 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Indus Valley Civilization
By Sir Mortimer Wheeler
With rare photographs
Published by The Cambridge University Press - 1968

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 9 Feb 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Indus Delta Country: A Memoir, Chiefly on Its Ancient Geography and History
By Malcolm Robert Haig
Published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., London - 1894

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 20 Dec 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Positive Sciences Of The Ancient Hindus
By Brajendranath Seal (1864-1938)
Published Longmans, Green & Co., London - 1915

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 25 Oct 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Ancient Indian Colonies In The Far East - SUVARNADVIPA
By R.C.Majumdar
Published by Asoke Kumar Majumdar, Dacca - 1937

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Image:
India Orientalis
Map Maker: Jodocus Hondius
Amsterdam / 1606 ca

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