R. S. Sharma

Indian History has been my first love since graduation days and i believe it is one of the best subject a person can inherit. Indeed, most of the novels, narratives, plots and many more are framed with the border of HISTORY to make it more readable and gripping.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Conventionally, history has been categorized into three parts-- Ancient, Medieval and Modern. The present review is based on Ancient Indian history.
Late R.S Sharma's 'India's Ancient Past' beautifully covers whole of the Ancient History of Indian subcontinent briefly-- beginning with the significance of studying ancient history till the emergence of medieval era. The book addresses the origin and growth of civilization with the emergence of other aspects-- geographical, ecological and linguistic backgrounds accompanied with important theories like transition from ancient to medieval and origin of Aryan culture.
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The only point I felt critical about is, here, Brahmanism has been synonym with Hinduism, factually, the former one is the part of the latter one. Overall it is a substantial framework presented in a simple manner which I enjoyed reading.… (more)