Download or read book In The Country of Gold digging Ants written by Anu Kumar and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-02-20 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you think Indian history is boring? Check out what these ancient reporters had to say about our country many centuries ago. In his book, Indika, Megasthenes, a Greek traveller, wrote about giant meat-eating ants that dug for gold in mines somewhere in eastern India! Hiuen Tsang, from China, was witness to an assassination attempt on King Harshavardhana at a religious gathering. The Venetian Marco Polo described how the people of Kashmir could use charms to change the weather and bring about darkness. Athanasius Nikitin, from Russia, was amazed by the sultan of Bidar, who went hunting accompanied by 10,000 men on horseback, 50,000 on foot, 200 elephants, 100 dancers, 300 horses, 100 monkeys and 100 concubines! Read astonishing stories about India written by explorers who came to the country as pilgrims, students, traders, voyagers and fortune-seekers from the 3rd century BC till the mid-twentieth century. These visitors left behind fascinating accounts of their perilous journeys in an unknown land; descriptions of what the people ate, wore and thought; who ruled them and how; the strange animals of this land, and many more startling facts which are often the only written historical records of those times. Filled with incredible stories and nuggets of information, In the Country of Gold-digging Ants brings alive the exciting adventures of eleven intrepid men and women, and may just make history your most favourite subject!
Download or read book The Story of the Gold digging Ants written by T. A. Rickard and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Snakes with Wings and Gold digging Ants written by Herodotus and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So much of what we know of the Ancient World comes from Herodotus (c.490 BC - c.420 BC) that he will always remain the greatest of historians. But in addition such a large part of the entertainment value of the Ancient World comes from his enormous, omnivorous, sometimes credulous appetite for stories of distant lands and strange creatures. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries – but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.
Download or read book The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society Bangalore India written by Mythic Society (Bangalore, India) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society Bangalore written by Mythic Society (Bangalore, India) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India Dacrydium to Gordonia written by Sir George Watt and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great written by John Watson McCrindle and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great written by John Watson McCrindle and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-24 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was created when John Watson McCrindle lived and worked in India as a schoolteacher. His interest in the state poured into years-long research of the ancient Greek and Latin text, where he collected the mentions of India. For this research, he collected materials from the works by Arrian, Q. Curtius, Diodoros, Plutarch, and Justin. The book follows Alexander's invasion in India, with all the great leader's campaigns on his way, including his invasion in Afghanistan, the Panjâb, Sindh, Gedrosia, and Karmania.
Download or read book Indian Antiquary written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great as Described by Arrian Q Curtius Diodoros Plutarch and Justin written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gold Its Occurrence and Extraction written by Alfred George Lock and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Indian Antiquary written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At a time when each Society had its own medium of propogation of its researches ... in the form of Transactions, Proceedings, Journals, etc., a need was strongly felt for bringing out a journal devoted exclusively to the study and advancement of Indian culture in all its aspects. [This] encouraged Jas Burgess to launch the 'Indian antiquary' in 1872. The scope ... was in his own words 'as wide as possible' incorporating manners and customs, arts, mythology, feasts, festivals and rites, antiquities and the history of India ... Another laudable aim was to present the readers abstracts of the most recent researches of scholars in India and the West ... 'Indian antiquary' also dealt with local legends, folklore, proverbs, etc. In short 'Indian antiquary' was ...entirely devoted to the study of MAN - the Indian - in all spheres ... " -- introduction to facsimile volumes, published 1985.
Download or read book Southern Tibet written by Sven Anders Hedin and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Statistical descriptive and historical account of the North western Provinces of India written by Edwin T. Atkinson and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 1874-01-01 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
