Author: K A Nilakanta Sastri
Foreword/Introduction: R Champakalakshmi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 481
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195606868
Description
This work presents, in a compact form, a comprehensive account of the history of the whole of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar.
With a new introduction, this edition incorporates the results of author's own researches, and brings together material previously scattered in many separate studies and presents it as a coherent narrative. Political history naturally occupies a predominant place, but full account is taken of social life, commerce, religion, philosophy, literature and the plastic arts; these subjects are treated both in the course of the historical narrative and in four separate chapters at the end of the book.
In her introduction, Professor Champakalakshmi brings this classic history up to date.
Contents
Illustrations
Introduction
CHAPTER I
Survey of the Sources
CHAPTER II
The Land in Relation to History
CHAPTER III
The Earliest People and Cultures
CHAPTER IV
The Dawn of History : Aryanization
CHAPTER V
The Age of the Mauryan Empire
CHAPTER VI
The Satavahanas and Their Successors
CHAPTER VII
The Age of the Sangam and After
CHAPTER VIII
Conflict of Three Empires
CHAPTER IX
The Balance of Two Empires
CHAPTER X
The Age of Four Kingdoms
CHAPTER XI
The Bahmanis and the Rise of Vijayanagar
CHAPTER XII
The Empire of Vijayanagar
CHAPTER XIII
Social and Economic Conditions
CHAPTER XIV
Literature
CHAPTER XV
Religion and Philosophy
CHAPTER XVI
Art and Architecture
Index