The Ancient Geography of India. I. The Buddhist Period, including the Campaigns of Alexander, and the Travels of Hwen-Thsang. By Alexander Cunningham., Major-General, R.E. With thirteen maps.

The story of these early peoples, whose societies, cultures, and beliefs laid the foundation for India's development, offers ...

By invoking this historical geography of a ... that stitched together the ancient world, Dalrymple argues, but a “Golden Road”, named for the riches of ideas and knowledge associated with the ...

Charaka, an eminent physician of ancient India, is hailed as the “Father ... mathematics, and geography to astrology. Varahamihira’s accurate astronomical calculations and predictive ...

In 1898, British landowner William Claxton Peppé excavated an ancient funerary monument on his estate in northern India. The site revealed a trove of 1,800 jewels, as well as ash and bone fragments.