Ancient and Early Medieval Indian History and Culture, 1963-1984
DDS Subject File No. 47
Subject Files-1846-1984
Ancient and Early Medieval Indian History and Culture, 1963-1984
Undated
Devahuti’s research materials on the history of ancient India. They include:
1. ‘Educational and Intellectual Methods in Vedic and Ancient Indian Cultures’ by A. S. Altekar, Journal of World History Vol. 5 No. 2.
2. ‘Histories of the Mitra Kings from Numismatic and Epigraphic Evidence’ by R. Vanaja.
3. ‘Kingship in Pre-Modern India’ by Sarva Daman Singh
4. ‘Government and Economic Life’ in The Gazetteer of India: History and Culture – Vol. II edited by P. N. Chopra.
5. ‘Theories of Creation in the Rig Veda’ by W. Norman Brown.
6. ‘Foundation and rise of the Gupta Empire: Saka-Murunda Rule in the Central Parts of Northern India’ & ‘Decline and Fall of the Gupta Empire Central Parts of Northern India’ by S. V. Sohoni in the Cambridge History of India Volume II
7. ‘Samudra-gupta Parakramanka (c. A.D. 345-370)’ by S. V. Sohoni.
8. Chapter 4 ‘The Caste System’ in Kshitimohan Sen’s book Hinduism.
Ancient and Early Medieval Indian History and Culture, 1963-1984
Undated
The file contains a typed and handwritten manuscript by Devahuti on ‘Ancient Indian view of History and treatment of events in relative and absolute time’, an article on Harshavardhana in Hindi. It also includes short essays by her on India’s Cultural Heritage, Characteristics of Indian Civilization, The Versatility of the Concept and Application of dharma, Janana Karma, Bhakti, Some Popular Myths about Indian history, Hinduism and Buddhism, History of Women in Indian Society, Limited Success of Marxism and others.
Manuscript; Ancient India; History; Time; Harshavardhan; Essays; Cultural Heritage; Indian Civilization; Dharma; Karma; Bhakti; Hinduism; Buddhism; Women; Marxism
