India discovered: the recovery of lost civilization
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BookPublication details: London HarperCollins Publishers 1981Description: 221 pISBN: 9780007123001Subject(s): India - Antiquities | India - CivilizationDDC classification: 954 Summary: The story, here reconstructed for the first time, is one of painstaking scholarship primed by a succession of sensational discoveries. The excitement of unearthing a city twice as old as Rome, the realization that the Buddha was not a god but a historical figure, the glories of a literature as rich as anything known in Europe, the drama of encountering a veritable Sistine chapel deep in the jungle, and the sheer delight of categorizing ?the most glorious galaxy of monuments in the world? fell, for the most part, to men who were officials of the British Raj. Their response to the unfamiliar the explicitly sexual statuary, the incomprehensible scripts, the enigmatic architecture and the revelations which resulted, revolutionized ideas not just about India but about civilization as a white man?s prerogative. (http://www.harpercollins.co.in/BookDetail.asp?Book_Code=2697)
| Item type | Current library | Item location | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Books | Vikram Sarabhai Library | Rack 45-A / Slot 2527 (3rd Floor, East Wing) | Non-fiction | General Stacks | 954 K3I6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 176869 |
The story, here reconstructed for the first time, is one of painstaking scholarship primed by a succession of sensational discoveries. The excitement of unearthing a city twice as old as Rome, the realization that the Buddha was not a god but a historical figure, the glories of a literature as rich as anything known in Europe, the drama of encountering a veritable Sistine chapel deep in the jungle, and the sheer delight of categorizing ?the most glorious galaxy of monuments in the world? fell, for the most part, to men who were officials of the British Raj. Their response to the unfamiliar the explicitly sexual statuary, the incomprehensible scripts, the enigmatic architecture and the revelations which resulted, revolutionized ideas not just about India but about civilization as a white man?s prerogative. (http://www.harpercollins.co.in/BookDetail.asp?Book_Code=2697)
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