The First Spring The Golden Age of India - Hardcover

Abraham Eraly

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670084786 ISBN 13: 9780670084784

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2011

Synopsis

The history of classical India is a huge and complex maze with many snares to entrap the explorer. Much of it is so thickly encrusted with myths that it is often difficult to separate facts from fables. Undaunted by this prospect Abraham Eraly unfolds, in First Spring, a profoundly illuminating panorama of an age that flowered luxuriantly before its inevitable decay. The vast landscape of Eraly s narrative covers more than a thousand years, from around the middle of the first millennium bce, to around the middle of the first millennium ce, when India was a prosperous and marvellously creative civilization, making many seminal contributions in multifarious fields of culture. From its ascent to the rarefied heights of the golden age to its descent into the swamp of the dark ages, from the daring intellectual adventurism of the first spring to the winter of corruption and cultural hibernation, this book tells the story of the classical Indian civilization in a manner that is both lucid and thoroughly engaging.

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About the Author

Abraham Eraly was born in Kerala and was educated there and in Chennai. He has taught Indian history in colleges in India and the United States, and was the editor of a current affairs magazine for several years. His works include two critically acclaimed and best-selling books on India: The Last Spring: The Lives and Times of the Great Mughals (later published in two volumes as Emperors of the Peacock Throne, and The Mughal World) and Gem in the Lotus: The Seeding of Indian Civilization.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670084786
• ISBN 13: 9780670084784
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 952