The Lords of India: The Evolution of Imperial Identity from Ajatashatru to Alamgir: Volume I: The Indosphere, (Paperback)

<b>Have you ever wondered?</b><ul><li>Why the largest Hindu and Buddhist temples in the world are outside India?</li><li>Why Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are so similar to India in culture and language?</li><li>Why Indians are so varied in language, ethnicity, culture, cuisine, customs, costumes, religious practices, architecture etc. and yet are included in one extraordinary modern nation?</li><li>Why it is almost impossible to discuss "Indian" history without reverting to regional histories or colonial stereotypes?</li><li>Why Hinduism remains an active and vital religion, unlike other ancient polytheistic religions like those of the Norse, Mesopotamian, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans?</li><li>Why places like Kandahar, Peshawar, Ayutthaya, Singapore etc. have Indic names?</li></ul><br><i><b>"The Lords of India: The Evolution of Imperial Identity From Ajatashatru to Alamgir"</b></i><br>is a book that attempts to provide a succinct yet comprehensive look at the history of<br>India through the evolution of its imperial states in order to provide answers to these and<br>other such fascinating questions. The history of India isn't a simple linear story like those<br>of smaller countries like that could easily fit inside most Indian states, or newer ones like<br>the US which has only existed for less than three centuries. The origins of an imperial<br>state in India goes back at least two and a half millennia, and how the rise of different<br>sovereign states that have succeeded in positioning themselves as the paramount power in<br>a majority of the modern nation of India while engaging with other contemporary states, <br>religious movements and participating in cultural exchanges with the wider world is the<br>focus of this book. By looking at the dominant pan-Indian monarch throughout different<br>periods in Indian history, this book attempts to introduce readers to the overall history of<br>India in relation to these towering figures. It touches upon the major states, monarchs, <br>religious movements, historical moments, social structures, architectural innovations, <br>scientific advances and linguistic evolution that have occurred in India from the time of<br>its first imperial state rising in the first millennium BCE till the end of native imperial rule<br>in the 18th century CE.<br>Volume I: The Indosphere focuses on the period until the 13th century, identified with the<br>period of Sanskritic international courtly high culture dominating the regions of South<br>and Southeast Asia.

• The Lords of India: The Evolution of Imperial Identity from Ajatashatru to Alamgir: Volume I: The Indosphere, (Paperback)
• Author: Earthadathu Books
• ISBN: 9781068992223
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2025-02-26
• Page Count: 278