Eternal India Encyclopedia

Eternal India

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LURE - THRU THE AGES

OVERVIEW

Ancient Site - Indus Valley

The past is ever with us, and all that

we are and that we have come from

the past. We are its products and we

live immersed in it.

With the past, the present and the

future are inextricably intertwined. It

is to the benefit of those who have got

a past to recall past history which

makes us proud and hopeful for the

future.

- Jawaharlal Nehru.

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(Indus Valley)

Unravelling a nation's history could be a fascinating discovery. It is

specially so when this land has had constantly changing limits in terms

of expanse and time. It is best to treat a reading of this volume as a walk

into the past with absolute freedom and being among the people, learn-

ing from their lives and being touched by their experience.

The ancient preceded by pre-history could sound mysterious. Some

of India's unrecorded times have been narrated by tell-tale evidence of

archaeology and oral tradition. The Dravidian and Aryan civilisations

have been brought to light in a comprehensive style so that any reader

would be in a position to tell it in a story form to generations of

youngsters who will take pride in a generation that was.

Indian history can no longer be read as a register with its long roll of

saints, sages, thinkers, poets, kings and ministers, heroes and heroines. It

has now become a story of fellow citizens, their struggles and triumphs,

traced intelligently in a plot, rhythm and a pattern. Here then, is unfolded,

a narrative of a people who lived within the purview of the realms like the

Mauryas and the Guptas, the Cholas and the Pallavas, with epithets de-

noting the characteristics of an age and an era.

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(Indus Valley)

Thousand Pillars Temple passage - Rameshwaram.