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The large scale donations of land in different parts of the Indian subcontinent is one of the major socio-cultural trends of the post-Gupta phase. Pre-Ahom Assam focuses on these phenomena in the Brahmaputra valley, the thirty-two inscriptions, twenty of which record royal grants of land to Brahmins, forming the basic historical sources of this period. The historiography and the different technical aspects of the grants such as their basic distribution, language ...
In 1924 the scholar-archaeologist John Marshall made an announcement that dramatically altered existing perceptions of South Asia's antiquity: He proclaimed the discovery of the civilization of the Indus valley. Marshall's news conveyed one of the most monumental discoveries in the history of human civilization: the world over, it became apparent that this was on the same scale as the findings of Heinrich Schliemann (show unearthed Troy) and Arthur Evans (who dug ...