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This book presents the result of the work done by a team of Indian archaeologists in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, under a cultural agreement between the Indian and the Afghan governments, to help in the preservation of the disintegrating Buddhist monuments in that place. This systematic study with many illustrations surveys a broad range of aspects relating to preservation of the monuments. It begins with the history of Bamiyan and discusses the broad problems involved ...
The book entitled "1857 Rao Tula Ram The Hero of Yadu Dynasty" is certainly a work of high merit. It is worthy of its great subject. It contains seals, coins, maps, genealogical tables and beautiful architecture of Yadu Dynasty.The story of history is one of the great civilizations that flourish and decline only to be succeed by others of equal brilliance. The history is told here by Dr. Gunpal S. Sangwan is of distinguished hero.The account of Rao Tula ...
Khandesh under the Great Mughals had not been a subject of an intensive research as other areas under the same rulers had been. This constitutes the main justification for the present study. The annexation of Khandesh in 1601 by Akbar was an event of great military and economic importance in the history of Mughal India. Khandesh provided a territorial link between the north and the south. The Mughals realised this; they made use of its resources to promote, ...
Man must always have been curious about past events. Knowledge was dependent at first upon oral traditions, later supplanted by written records of past events, and stimulated by the visibIe monuments of half-remembered episodes. In the middle ages, any interest in the ancient world was affectively suppressed by religious priests. They presented in ordered list of events of particular religion. War between group of people probably had existed from the earliest ...
Islamic India' is an important book on source materials in Persian inscriptions and such other materials, hitherto inaccessible to researchers. It would help researches in local, provincial and central history of medieval India under the Muslim rulers. This scholarly work has an exhausive index with glossary and illustrated with a map and forty six inscriptional photographs. The work will be treasured by scholars and researchers alike for a deep insight into the ...
The Ajanta caves are situated fifty five miles northeast of Aurangabad. Twenty four monasteries and five temples have been hewn out of the solid rock, many of them supported by lofty pillars, richly ornamented with sculptures, and highly finished engravings..... Ajanta caves are the most splendid caves of all the cave temples of western India, and its paintings are richly coloured, and according to Dr. Burgess, have been even considered superior to the ...
Ibn Khalidoon, the fourteenth century father of modern historiography and sociology, is a great name in the history of human culture. Muslims and Non-Muslims alike have paid homage to the great heritage left by him. Of his famous Prolegomena (Muqaddima) Professor Arnold Toynbee in his: A study of history, III, P. 332. (London: Oxford University Press, 1935) says: "It is the greatest work of its kind that has yet been created by any mind in any time or ...