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In search of the cradle of civilization : new light on ancient India

Title
In search of the cradle of civilization : new light on ancient India / Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak, and David Frawley.
Author
Feuerstein, Georg.
Publication
Wheaton, IL : Quest Books, 1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Kak, Subhash, 1947-
  • Frawley, David.
Description
xx, 341 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Subject
  • India > Antiquities
  • India > Civilization
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-312) and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. Revisioning the Past, Envisioning the Future -- Ch. 2. The Vedas: Pyramids of the Spirit -- Ch. 3. The Aryans: Exploding a Scientific Myth -- Ch. 4. An Archaeological Surprise: The Cities of the Indus Valley -- Ch. 5. The Great Catastrophe and the Reconstruction of the Early Indic Civilization -- Ch. 6. The Vedic Peoples in the Land of the Seven Rivers: The Literary Perspective -- Ch. 7. Deciphering the Indus-Sarasvati Script -- Ch. 8. The Dawn of the Indic Civilization: The Neolithic Town of Mehrgarh -- Ch. 9. Why the Aryan Invasion Never Happened: Seventeen Arguments -- Ch. 10. The Spiritual Heritage of Ancient India -- Ch. 11. The Birth of Science in Ritual -- Ch. 12. Vedic Myths and Their Astronomical Basis -- Ch. 13. India and the West -- Ch. 14. The Vedas and Perennial Wisdom.
ISBN
  • 0835607208 (hard cover)
  • 0835607410 (trade paper)
LCCN
95006906
OCLC
  • 32051035
  • ocm32051035
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries