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Indian History Part 45 ISLAM IN INDIA: AN OVERVIEW OF THE EARLY DAYS

Canberra, 28 October 2015 Analysing and explaining the arrival of Islam and its deepening thrust into the Indian sub-continent is an endeavour in Indian historiography that is fraught with difficulty, primarily because of the confrontational rhetoric associated with any discussion of the religion in the 21st century, both in India and elsewhere in the world. […]

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FROM INDUS TO INDEPENDENCE: A TREK THROUGH INDIAN HISTORY

Canberra, 19 December 2012 Part 5   THE VEDIC AGE (1500 BC – about 500 AD) Section I: DECIPHERING THE EPICS The decline and disappearance of the Harappan Civilisation can be regarded as the beginning of recorded history in the Indian context where textual sources provide verifiable information for the historian to analyse. There are […]

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