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Indian Museum is an offspring of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and owes its birth to Dr. Nathaniel Wallich in the year 1814. This cultural Insititution was established to preserve, exhibit, research and share the cultural heritage in the subcontinent. This monograph deals with the early history of the Indian Museum-the oldest museum in the country, formally know as the Imperial Museum' in the days of British rule in Indian. The main emphasis in the book, das ...
The Digha - Nikaya provides us with a pan-picture of the socio-economic as well as religious condition prevalent in ancient India at the time of its compilation. Though the aims and objects of the Suttantas of the Digha - Nikaya are not avowedly secular, the Suttantas depict society from an independent point of view, and give details, specially, of the darker phases of social life with the fullness and vairety that we generally miss in the sacred texts: Here in ...