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AL Basham’s The Wonder that was Indian is a brilliant early history of one of the oldest civilizations. When it was first published in the United Kingdom in 1954, it became an instant hit, as it would in the United States a few years later. Since then it has consistently found an avid readership all over the world, been translated into many languages, and has educated and entertained generations of general readers, serious students and travelers to India. This ...
The book presents the history and the Doctrines of the Ajivikas who formed a third heretical sect besides the sect of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism and that of Mahavira Vardhamana, the twenty-fourth Tirthankara of the Jainas. The three heterodox sects react against the ritualistic creed of the Vedists.
The cult of Ajivikas was founded by Makkhali Gosal, the contemporary of Mahavira Vardhamana, on the basis of strict determinism with a belief in the ...
This book, the final major contribution of A.L. Basham, is written with his usual clarity. Written with the general reader mind, the book answers many questions which may appear baffling to the uninitiated. Yet the author has never deviated from the rigor of his approach towards the study of Indian religion which combined history, philology and phenomenology…Above all the lucidity of his presentation will endear the book to both the student and the master.