Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River
Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River

Author: Alice Albinia

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2010-04-05

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780393063226

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“Alice Albinia is the most extraordinary traveler of her generation. . . . A journey of astonishing confidence and courage.”—Rory Stewart One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imperial expansion, and today is the cement of Pakistan’s fractious union. Alice Albinia follows the river upstream, through two thousand miles of geography and back to a time five thousand years ago when a string of sophisticated cities grew on its banks. “This turbulent history, entwined with a superlative travel narrative” (The Guardian) leads us from the ruins of elaborate metropolises, to the bitter divisions of today. Like Rory Stewart’s The Places In Between, Empires of the Indus is an engrossing personal journey and a deeply moving portrait of a river and its people.

East of Indus
East of Indus

Author: Gurnam Singh Sidhu Brard

Publisher: Hemkunt Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9788170103608

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The Indus
The Indus

Author: Andrew Robinson

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2021-03-08

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1780235410

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The Indus civilization flourished for half a millennium from about 2600 to 1900 BCE, when it mysteriously declined and vanished from view. It remained invisible for almost four thousand years, until its ruins were discovered in the 1920s by British and Indian archaeologists. Today, after almost a century of excavation, it is regarded as the beginning of Indian civilization and possibly the origin of Hinduism. The Indus: Lost Civilizations is an accessible introduction to every significant aspect of an extraordinary and tantalizing “lost” civilization, which combined artistic excellence, technological sophistication, and economic vigor with social egalitarianism, political freedom, and religious moderation. The book also discusses the vital legacy of the Indus civilization in India and Pakistan today.

The Indus River
The Indus River

Author: Shane Mountjoy

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 1438120036

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Discusses the Indus River, which is the chief river of Pakistan.

Homecoming
Homecoming

Author: Charlene Gilbert

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2002-01-06

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780807009635

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An illustrated history of African-American farmers, Homecoming is a requiem for a way of life that has almost disappeared. Based on the film Homecoming, produced for the Independent Television Service with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The videocassette of Homecoming is available from California Newsreel at www.newsreel.org.

Bulletin ...
Bulletin ...

Author: Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)

Publisher:

Published: 1917

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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The Cause of Humanity and Other Stories
The Cause of Humanity and Other Stories

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-11-22

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 110875015X

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Rudyard Kipling's (1865–1936) work is known and loved the world over by children and adults alike; it has been translated into many languages, and onto the cinema screen. This volume brings together for the first time some 86 uncollected short fictions. Almost all of them will be unfamiliar to readers; some are unrecorded in any bibliography; some are here published for the first time. Most of them come from Kipling's Indian years and show him experimenting with a great variety of forms and tones. We see the young Kipling enjoying the exercise of his craft; yet the voice that emerges throughout is always unmistakably his own, changing the scene every time the curtain is raised.

The Indus Script and the Ṛg-Veda
The Indus Script and the Ṛg-Veda

Author: Egbert Richter-Ushanas

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9788120814059

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The deciphering of the Indus script has met with suspicion and is exposed to ridicule even. Many people are nowadays of the opinion that the Indus script is altogether indecipherable, if not a bilingual of considerable size turns up. The approach to a decipherment presented in this volume makes avail of a bilingual, too, but its masterkey is the discovering of the symbolic connection of the Indus signs with the metaphoric language of the Rg-Veda. Nearly 200 inscriptions, among them the longest and those with the most interesting motifs, have been decoded here by setting them syllable for syllable in relation to Rg-Vedic verses. The results that were gained by this method for the pictographic values of the Indus signs are surprising and far beyond the possibilities of the most daring phantasy. At the same time many problems of the Rg-Veda could be solved or new insights be won.