Name: Empires of the Indus: 10Th Anniversary Edition: The Story of a River (en Inglés)
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Author: Alice Albinia
ISBN: 9780719560057

portada Empires of the Indus: 10Th Anniversary Edition: The Story of a River (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

John Murray General Publishing Divi

Autor

Alice Albinia

Categoría

Historia y Períodos

Año

2009

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

384

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0719560055

ISBN13

9780719560057

Empires of the Indus: 10Th Anniversary Edition: The Story of a River (en Inglés)

Alice Albinia (Autor) · John Murray General Publishing Divi · Tapa Blanda

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10th anniversary edition with new Preface One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. For millennia it has been worshipped as a god; for centuries used as a tool of imperial expansion; today it is the cement of Pakistans fractious union. Five thousand years ago, a string of sophisticated cities grew and traded on its banks. In the ruins of these elaborate metropolises, Sanskrit-speaking nomads explored the river, extolling its virtues in Indias most ancient text, the Rig-Veda. During the past two thousand years a series of invaders - Alexander the Great, Afghan Sultans, the British Raj - made conquering the Indus valley their quixotic mission. For the people of the river, meanwhile, the Indus valley became a nodal point on the Silk Road, a centre of Sufi pilgrimage and the birthplace of Sikhism. Empires of the Indus follows the river upstream and back in time, taking the reader on a voyage through two thousand miles of geography and more than five millennia of history redolent with contemporary importance.