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• Personal Reflections on the Intellectual Life of Christopher Z. Minkowski: Recollections from Ithaca / Anne Blackburn
• Śāstradīpaka: Christopher Minkowski and the Boden Professorship / Anand Venkatkrishnan
• Introduction / Christopher T. Fleming
• Part I. The Vedic World: 1. When Cows Sacrifice / Barbora Sojkova
• 2. A sūkta of the Paippalāda Atharvaveda about the symptoms and causes of tetanus / Elizabeth Tucker
• 3. Another, Unrecognized, cvi Construction in the Rigveda, with Cautionary Remarks on the Supposed Origin of the Construction / Stephanie W. Jamison
• 4. Hann iti han / John J. Lowe
• Part II. Astral and Medical Sciences: 5. A Meru as a Mathematical Tool / Takanori Kusuba
• 6. Calculation and Correction for the Mean Position of the Planets in the Jyotirmīmāṃsā / Setsuro Ikeyama
• 7. Integrating logarithm concepts into syntheses of Sanskrit, Muslim and European astronomy in 18th-century Jaipur / Clemency Montelle and Kim Plofker
• 8. Cyclical time in Brahmanical India: origin and development / Johannes Bronkhorst
• 9. Caraka on the Human Being: A New Translation of Carakasaṃhitā, Śārīrasthāna, Chapter 1 / Dominik Wujastyk
• Part III. Statecraft and Jurisprudence: 10. To Kill or Not to Kill: The Hermeneutics of the Ethical Axiom ahiṃsā / Patrick Olivelle
• 11. Ascetics as Royal Advisors in the Mahābhārata / Valters Negribs
• 12. Real Settlement and Constructed Wilderness? Grāma and araṇya revisited / Frederick M. Smith
• 13. Forest people in the Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra / Thomas R. Trautmann
• Part IV. Sanskrit Intellectuals and Their Communities: 14. Guardians of Truth: Commentarial Interventions in Support of the Heroes of the Sanskrit Epics / Robert P. Goldman
• 15. Disruptive Readings: Sanskrit Literary Commentary as Translation / Deven M. Patel
• 16. Debates Around the Delta: God's Unity in Modern Advaita Vedānta / Jonathan Duquette
• 17. Public fasting in Parasuram's temple: Gautambaids suit in seventeenth century Maharashtra / Rosalind O'Hanlon
• Index.

"Science and Society in the Sanskrit World lauds the remarkable career of Christopher Z. Minkowski, the erstwhile Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Balliol College, University of Oxford. The volume contains seventeen essays, written by Professor Minkowski's colleagues and students, that explore a kaleidoscopic array of classical Sanskrit scientific disciplines, such as grammar, jurisprudence, theology, and hermeneutics. Individually, these essays offer substantive contributions to the many fields of Sanskritic inquiry that piqued Professor Minkowski's professional interest. Collectively, however, this volume foregrounds a unifying theme to Minkowski's intellectual oeuvre: that scholars' scientific endeavors are inseparable from the social worlds that shaped those scholars' lives. Contributors are: Anne Blackburn, Johannes Bronkhorst, Jonathan Duquette, Robert Goldman, Setsuro Ikeyama, Stephanie Jamison, Takanori Kusuba, John Lowe, Clemency Montelle, Valters Negribs, Rosalind O'Hanlon. Patrick Olivelle, Deven Patel, Kim Plofker, Frederick Smith, Barbora Sojkova, Thomas Trautmann, Elizabeth Tucker, Anand Venkatkrishnan, and Dominik Wujastyk"-- Provided by publisher.

• bk. 1. Vedic period, B.C. 2000 to 1400
• bk. 2. Epic period, B.C. 1400 to 1000
• bk. 3. Rationalistic period, B.C. 1000 to B.C. 242
• bk. 4. Buddhist period, B.C. 242 to A.D. 500
• bk. 5. Paurāṇik period, A.D. 500 to A.D. 1194.

• Historiography of ancient India
• Geography and ethnography
• Prehistory, technology, and social evolution
• Proto-history (Harappan and chalcolithic cultures)
• The Vedas, Vedic society and ideas
• Foundations and beginnings of systematic science.

• List of tables and figures
• Preface
• 1. Archaeology in South Asia
• Part I. Constituent Elements: 2. Prehistoric environments
• 3. The earliest South Asians
• 4. Hunter-gatherers and nomadic pastoralists
• 5. The first agricultural communities
• Part II. Indus Urbanism: 6. The early Indus period
• 7. The mature Indus civilization - I
• 8. The mature Indus civilization - II
• Part III. The Legacy of the Indus Civilization: 9. The aftermath of the Indus civilization in the Indus and Ganges systems
• 10. The aftermath of the Indus civilization in Peninsular India
• 11. The arrival of Indo-Aryan speaking people and the spread of the Indo-Aryan languages
• 12. The Iron Age and the emergence of classical Indian civilization
• 13. Subcontinental unity and regional diversity
• Select general bibliography
• Index.
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Many spectacular discoveries of archeaological significance have been made in the Indian subcontinent since the first appearance of Raymond and Bridget Allchin's book The Birth of Indian Civilization, for long the most authoritative and widely read text on its subject. Advances in related fields, particularly in geomorphology, palaeobotany and palaeoclimatology, have also radically altered our picture of the emergence of Indian civilisation. In The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan the authors have completely revised and rewritten their earlier work to present an integrated and dynamic account of human culture in South Asia. Drawing primarily upon the archaeological record, and supported by ethnographic, linguistic and historical evidence, the authors trace the origins and development of culture in India and Pakistan from its earliest roots in Palaeolithic times, through the rise and disintegration of the great Indus Civilization to the emergence of regional cultures, and the arrival and spread of Indo-Aryan speaking peoples. They conclude with the early Buddhist period and the appearance of city states right across Pakistan and North India, establishing the pattern of subcontinental unity and regional diversity that was to characterize the country henceforward. The authors have made every attempt to incorporate the results of the most recent research and their book is illustrated throughout with photographs, maps and line diagrams. Offering an original and stimulating perspective on the archaeology of the subcontinent, The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan will be invaluable to students of South Asian culture and early history. It will also appeal to anyone interested in historical geography, world prehistory and archaeology in general.
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