Pre-Mussalman India
A History of the Motherland Prior to the Sultanate of Delhi

M.S. Nateson (Author)

9789390729104

Hardback, published 20 November 2024

164 pages
23 x 15 x 1.2 cm, 0.55 kg

This slim volume gives an account of India’s history prior to ad 1206, the founding of the Sultanate of Delhi. The chapters are short and crisp and offer information on the Age of the Itihasas, the Dravidians, the post-Vedic ages, Mahavira and Gautama Buddha, foreign invasions into India, visit of Chinese scholar Hiuen Tsang, Rajput ascendancy, Muslim conquests, the Punjab occupation and the effect of Muslim invasions. One point to which the reader's attention is drawn is that the author dares to question whether the Aryans ever came to India as a conquering?race?from?a?foreign?country.

• Introduction XXI
• I The Age of the Itihasas 1.
• II. The Dravidians 18
• III. The Post-Vedic Ages 20
• IV. Maha-ivra and Gautama 25
• V. Foreign Invasions into India 32
• VI Alexander the Great 34
• VII. Pre-tA'sokan Magadha 38
• VIII. Asoka 44
• IX. The Sunga Dynasty
• X. The Andhras 54
• XI. Foreign Invasions 56
• XII. The Guptas 61
• XIII. Chinese Pilgrims : Fa Hian 64
• XIV. The Later Guptas 68
• X.V. The Harsha Empire 72
• X VI. fliuen Tsang or Yuan Chung
• XVII. Rajpnt Ascendancy 83
• Minor Hindu Kingdoms '87
• XIX. The 1VIussalman Conquests 96
• XX. The Punjab Occupation 100
• XXI. The Effect on India of the Mussalman Incursions 107
• Sultan Mahamad (Thor in India 111
• The Sultanate of Delhi 115
• Conclusion 116
• XXV. The Sources of Indian History 126
• Appendix I. 130
• Appendix II. 132
• Appendix III. 133