In Search of the Cradle of Civilization: New Light on Ancient India

Feuerstein, Georg. Kak, Subhash. Frawley, David

ISBN 10: 0835607208 / ISBN 13: 9780835607209

Published by Quest Books, U.S.A., 1995

About this Item

Clean, tight copy in pictorial dust jacket. 341pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In Search of the Cradle of Civilization: New Light on Ancient India
• Publisher: Quest Books, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0835607208
• ISBN 13: 9780835607209
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Cosmology
  • Eastern Philosophy
  • Atlantis/Lost Continents

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Synopsis

Arguing that India, not Sumer, was the cradle of civilization, looks at India's ancient history by examining the symbols and myths contained in the Rig-Veda and exploring the mathematical and astronomical data contained in the Vedic hymns.

Reviews

With this work, the authors, all three renowned Yoga and Vedic scholars with multiple publications to their names, set out to challenge the generally held theory that advanced culture began in Sumer in southern Mesopotamia. Relying on a reexamination of redated Vedic literature and denying that an "Aryan invasion" from the north ever took place, which allegedly would have introduced advanced culture into India at a relatively late date, they claim instead that advanced culture already existed in the Indus valley?before the flourishing of Sumer. The work is broad in scope, well documented, and extensively illustrated. Although this book is written for the lay reader, the authors hope that it will stir the scholarly world as well. Public and academic libraries will want to have this title.?Ria Koopmans-de Bruijn, C.V. Starr East Asian Lib., Columbia Univ.
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