Author: A Compilation
Publisher: Rohan Book
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 200
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8178262568
Description
India occupies a strategic position in Asia, looking across the seas to Arabia and Africa on the west and to Myanmar, Malaysia and the Indonesia Archipelago on the east. Geographically, the Himalayan ranges keep India apart from the rest of Asia.
Indian population is polygenetic and is said to be the melting port of various races. Few, if any, can claim to belong to any particular stock. Nevertheless, many Indians pride themselves on their Aryan descent. Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Parsis are the major religious communities of India.
India is the land of the magnificent Taj Mahal and Ajanta Caves, it is the land of Nalanda University, one of the oldest in the world. Thus, it is the country which everyone dreams to visit.
This book, through its pictures, provides a visual dimension of the country-an invitation for readers who have not yet visited India, and a trigger for the memories of those who have done so far.
Contents
Old Stone Age
Man as a Trader
Man-An Architect
The Aryans in India
Man and his belief
The Ramayana
The Mahabharta-A Great Epic
Jainism
Buddha
Under the Bodhi Tree
Alexander the Great
Chandragupta Maurya
Ashoka the Great
Magnificent Caves of Ajanta
The Kushans
The Charaka Samhita
Drama-The Dance Forms
Sushruta Samhita-the Plastic Surgery
Silappadhikaram-Story of the Anklet
Aryabhata
Gupta Age
King Harsha
Ghazni-The Turkish Invador
The Stolen Princess
Vasco Da Gama
East India Company
Kabir
Sikhism-A Brief history
Maharaja Ranjit Singh
Babur
The Great Mughals
Akbar
Nur Jahan-A Lady in Power
Shrine to Love
Shivaji’s Escape
Plassey
Tipu Sultan
The First Railway
Indian Mutiny
Lord Rippon’s Defeat
First Congress
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Massacre at Amritsar
Rabindranath Tagore
Mahatma Gandhi
Salt March
Gandhi’s Bonfire
Subhash Chandra Bose
Freedom at Midnight
A Tryst with Destiny
A Divided Land
Indira Gandhi
Industries of India
Project Tiger
Molecule Man
Space Voyager
The Saint of Gutters
Little Big Man
The Names We Lives with
Sacred Symbols
Islam
Conquest and Rule (AD 1000-1858)
Conquest for Nationhood (AD 1859-1950)
1946-1990
India-A Survey
Glimpses of India