Gem In The Lotus by Abraham Eraly

By Abraham Eraly

A complete and compelling portrait of old India In Gem within the Lotus, Abraham Eraly, writer of The final Spring, the best-selling and seriously acclaimed historical past of the Mughals, identifies and explores the numerous milestones within the evolution of historical India. starting with an enquiry into the enigma that used to be the Indus Valley civilisation, he writes of the development from the Vedic Aryan tradition to the age of spiritual and philosophical ferment, culminating within the tenets of Jainism; the founding and consolidation of Buddhism; Alexander's boost into India; the increase of the Mauryan empire; and Ashoka's strange political profession. within the ultimate portion of the booklet, he describes the -clockwork kingdom' of the Mauryas depicted in Kautilya's Arthasastra and in historic Greek accounts.

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