An increased pace in archaeological research in recent decades has yielded a construction of the history of prehistoric and early historic India primarily in terms of archaeology. India's grassroots archaeological history in all its continuities and diversities from its Palaeolithic beginnings to AD 300 when early historic India assumed its basic form. Reconstructs the historical development of human-natural resource interaction in the subcontinent in a lucid style with maps, illustrations, and tables. This second edition contains a new afterword, which discusses all new ideas and discoveries in Indian Archaeology between 1998 and 2008. Would be indispensable for students and specialists of archaeology and early South Asian history.
Chapter 1. ANCIENT INDIA: THE IMPORTANCE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
Chapter 2. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE SUBCONTINENT
Chapter 5. PEOPLES AND LANGUAGES: THE BASIC CLASSIFICATORY FRAMEWORKS
Chapter 6. RESEARCH BACKGROUND
Chapter 8. THE EARLIEST DATES OF PALAEOLITHIC TOOLS IN THE SUBCONTINENT
Chapter 9. DISTRIBUTION, STRATIGRAPHY, CLIMATE
Chapter 12. THE EVIDENCE OF ART (?)
Chapter 13. THE CONCEPT OF A MESOLITHIC LEVEL AND ITS DISTRIBUTION
Chapter 15. ASSOCIATED ROCK ART
Chapter 16. THE MOUNTAINOUS RIM IN THE NORTH-WEST: BALUCHISTAN
Chapter 17. THE MOUNTAINOUS RIM IN THE NORTH-WEST: BANNU
Chapter 18. THE WESTERN FRINGE OF THE INDUS-HAKRA ALLUVIUM: THE GOMAL VALLEY
Chapter 19. THE WESTERN FRINGE OF THE INDUS-HAKRA ALLUVIUM: KIRTHAR PIEDMONT AND KOHISTAN
Chapter 20. THE WESTERN FRINGE OF THE INDUS-HAKRA ALLUVIUM: THE POTWAR PLATEAU
Chapter 21. THE INDUS-HAKRA PLAIN
Chapter 22. THE ARAVALLI BELT: THE GROWTH OF AN EARLY METALLURGICAL CENTRE
Chapter 24. TOWARD THE INDUS CIVILIZATION
Chapter 28. MORPHOLOGY OF SOME MAJOR SITES
Chapter 29. GENERAL FEATURES OF HARAPPAN CIVILIZATION
Chapter 30. CHRONOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK
Chapter 31. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL FRAMEWORK
Chapter 32. DECLINE AND TRANSFORMATION
Chapter 33. COMPLEXITIES OF THE BEGINNING OF FOOD PRODUCTION IN NON-HARAPPAN INDIA
Chapter 34. THE MOUNTAINS IN THE NORTH
Chapter 38. KARNATAKA, ANDHRA, TAMIL NADU
Chapter 39. ORISSA, THE NORTH-EASTERN STATES, WEST BENGAL AND BIHAR
Chapter 42. THE HISTORICAL FRAMEWORK OF EARLY HISTORIC INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
Chapter 43. SETTLEMENT CONTEXTS
Chapter 46. SCULPTURE, TERRACOTTA, PAINTING
Chapter 48. CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS
Chapter 54. TRADE AND TRADE ROUTES
‘Afterword’: Ideas and Discoveries in Indian Archaeology, 1998–2008