Britannica Guide to India
A Comprehensive Introduction to the World's Fastest Growing Country
1st Edition
Published on 5. January 2009
465 pages
978-1-59339-847-7 (ISBN)
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Part of the Britannica Guide series offers an essential introduction to many of the key issues of our times. Clear, accurate, and meticulously researched, the series gives both the background and analysis for when you need to know for sure what is really
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Maps
- Introduction
- Part 1 Overview
- India - Facts and Figure
- Political Map of India
- Physical Map of India
- 1 The Place and the People
- Part 2 History
- 2 Early Civilizations to the Fall of the Mughal Empire (8000 BCE-1800)
- 3 European Expansion and British Imperial Power (1750-1947)
- 4 The Rebuplic of India (1947-2007)
- Part 3 Religion, the Arts, and Philiosophy
- 5 Religion
- 6 Music and Dance
- 7 Literature
- 8 Architecture
- 9 Visual Arts
- 10 Philiosophy
- Part 4 India Today
- 11 Government and Soceity
- 12 The Economy
- 13 Everyday Life in Modern India
- Part 5 The Major Sites to Visit
- Delhi
- Agra
- Fatehpur Sikri
- Varanasi
- Mumbai (Bombay)
- Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Darjeeling (Darjiling)
- Rajasthan
- Punjap and Amritsar
- Tamil Nadu, Chennai (Madras), and Madurai
- Kerala and Kochi (Cochin)
- Goa
- Hampi
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
