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

Presents new ideas and research on the cultural history of ancient India, including the idea that Sumer was not the cradle of civilization.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Feuerstein, Georg
Other Authors: Kak, Subhash, 1947-, Frawley, David
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wheaton, IL : Quest Books, 1995.
Edition:1st Quest ed.
Subjects:
India > Antiquities.
India > Civilization.
Civilization > history
Inde > Antiquités.
Inde > Civilisation.
Antiquities.
Civilization.
India.
Table of Contents:
  • Revisioning the past, envisioning the future
  • The Vedas : pyramids of the spirit
  • The Aryans : exploding a scientific myth
  • An archaeological surprise : the cities of the Indus Valley
  • The great catastrophe and the reconstruction of early Indic civilization
  • The vedic peoples in the land of the seven rivers : the literary perspective
  • Deciphering the Indus-Sarasvati script
  • The dawn of the Indic civilization : the Neolithic town of Mehrgarh
  • Why the Aryan invasion never happened : seventeen arguments
  • The spiritual heritage of ancient India
  • The birth of science in ritual
  • Vedic myths and their astronomical basis
  • India and the West
  • The Vedas and perennial wisdom.