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India Discovered

- The Recovery of a Lost Civilization
Af: John Keay Engelsk Paperback

India Discovered

- The Recovery of a Lost Civilization
Af: John Keay Engelsk Paperback
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Two hundred years ago, India was seen as a place with little history and less culture.Today it is revered for a notable prehistory, a magnificent classical age and a cultural tradition unique in both character and continuity. How this extraordinary change in perception came about is the subject of this fascinating book.The story, here reconstructed for the first time, is one of painstaking scholarship primed by a succession of sensational discoveries. The excitement of unearthing a city twice as old as Rome, the realization that the Buddha was not a god but a historical figure, the glories of a literature as rich as anything known in Europe, the drama of encountering a veritable Sistine chapel deep in the jungle, and the sheer delight of categorizing ‘the most glorious galaxy of monuments in the world’ fell, for the most part, to men who were officials of the British Raj. Their response to the unfamiliar – the explicitly sexual statuary, the incomprehensible scripts, the enigmatic architecture – and the revelations which resulted, revolutionized ideas not just about India but about civilization as a white man’s prerogative.A companion volume by the author of the highly praised India: A History and The Great Arc.
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Two hundred years ago, India was seen as a place with little history and less culture.Today it is revered for a notable prehistory, a magnificent classical age and a cultural tradition unique in both character and continuity. How this extraordinary change in perception came about is the subject of this fascinating book.The story, here reconstructed for the first time, is one of painstaking scholarship primed by a succession of sensational discoveries. The excitement of unearthing a city twice as old as Rome, the realization that the Buddha was not a god but a historical figure, the glories of a literature as rich as anything known in Europe, the drama of encountering a veritable Sistine chapel deep in the jungle, and the sheer delight of categorizing ‘the most glorious galaxy of monuments in the world’ fell, for the most part, to men who were officials of the British Raj. Their response to the unfamiliar – the explicitly sexual statuary, the incomprehensible scripts, the enigmatic architecture – and the revelations which resulted, revolutionized ideas not just about India but about civilization as a white man’s prerogative.A companion volume by the author of the highly praised India: A History and The Great Arc.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 224
ISBN-13: 9780007123001
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0007123000
Kategori: Historiografi
Udg. Dato: 15 okt 2001
Længde: 17mm
Bredde: 132mm
Højde: 198mm
Forlag: HarperCollins Publishers
Oplagsdato: 15 okt 2001
Forfatter(e): John Keay
Forfatter(e) John Keay


Kategori Historiografi


ISBN-13 9780007123001


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 224


Udgave


Længde 17mm


Bredde 132mm


Højde 198mm


Udg. Dato 15 okt 2001


Oplagsdato 15 okt 2001


Forlag HarperCollins Publishers

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