THE WONDER THAT WAS INDIA Volume I

THE WONDER THAT WAS INDIA Part 1

Survey of the history and
culture of the Indian sub-continent
Before the coming of the Muslims

A. L. Basham

Professor of Asian Civilization in the
Australian National University
Canberra

THIRD REVISED EDITION

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serious students and travellers to
India. This edition celebrates its
fifty years in print with foreword
by Thomas R Trautmann, professor
at the University of Michigan and
once Basham’s student, which
brings are the man and the

academic behind this cherished
volume and illuminate the
historical influences uponit.
The Founder that
The Wonder that are In us
window is a
classic that anybody with an
interest in the civilizational
beginnings of India must read. It
work of uncompromising
scholarship and labour of love
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