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• Greek Knowledge of India Before the 4th Century BC

  When Alexander the Great marched over to India towards the end of the 4th century B.C. and incorporated a section of this country in his Empire, it was not the first time that the ancient Greeks were learning about this part of the world, for they had known quite a lot about it already from centuries...

• The History of Ancient India

  The earliest imprints of human activities in India go back to the Paleolithic Age, roughly between 400,000 and 200,000 B.C. Stone implements and cave paintings from this period have been discovered in many parts of the South Asia. Evidence of domestication of animals, the adoption of agriculture, permanent...

• Initiation of religions in India

  The religious practices of the early Indo-Aryans, known as the Vedic religion (1500 BC to 500 BC) were written down and later redacted into the Samhitas, four canonical collections of hymns or mantras, called the Veda, in archaic Sanskrit. The Late Vedic age (9th to 6th centuries BC) marked the beginning...

• Religious Developments in Ancient India

  For well over 1,000 years, sacred stories and heroic epics have made up the mythology of Hinduism. Nothing in these complex yet colourful legends is fixed and firm. Pulsing with creation, destruction, love, and war, it shifts and changes. Most myths occur in several different versions, and many characters...

• Cultural links between India and the Greco-Roman world

  Cyrus the Great (558-530 BC) built the first universal empire, stretching from Greece to the Indus River. This was the famous Achaemenid Dynasty of Persia. An inscription at Naqsh-i-Rustam, the tomb of his able successor Darius I (521-486 BC), near Persepolis, records Gadara (Gandhara) along with Hindush...

Illustrations

India Books

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared M. Diamond W. W. Norton & Company (01 April 1999) Price: $11.18

• The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall... Susan Wise Bauer W. W. Norton & Company (17 March 2007) Price: $19.77

• The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization... Vishal Mangalwadi Thomas Nelson (10 May 2011) Price: $14.84

• The Campaigns of Alexander Arrian Penguin Classics (28 October 1976) Price: $11.56

• Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization Graham Hancock Three Rivers Press (28 October 2003) Price: $14.28