Park, Jang-Sik, and Vasant Shinde."Iron technology of the ancient megalithic...
The megalithic period in India is notable for the emergence and development of iron metallurgy and the appearance of new burials known as megaliths. A number of iron objects from megalithic sites in...
View ArticleRavisankar, R., Raja G. Annamalai, A. Naseerutheen, A. Chandrasekaran, M.V.R....
Analytical characterization of megalithic sarcophagi potsherds from Veeranam, Tiruvannamalai dist., Tamilnadu has been performed using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Powder X-ray...
View ArticleCole, Henry Hardy, and Charles Shepherd.Photograph XIX. Niche of the tomb...
THIS tomb is situated about three miles to the west of the Kutb and contains the remains of the eldest son of the Emperor Shams-ud-din Altamsh,—Nasirud- din Mahmud who was created Prince of Bengal by...
View ArticleCole, Henry Hardy, and Charles Shepherd.Photograph X. View of the Great...
THE life of Kutb-ud-din, who was the founder of a monarchy of "slave" kings, is typical of the history of the Turki slaves who frequently rose to authority and even sovereignty throughout Asia, and for...
View ArticlePhotograph IX. Pillars in the South Colonnede In The Architecture of Ancient...
ON the northern as well as the southern sides of the court the pillars are all of a much plainer character than on the east, and from their simplicity are, I imagine, of an earlier date. Although...
View ArticleCole, Henry Hardy, and Charles Shepherd.Photograph I. View of the Iron Pillar...
If, as General Cunningham assumes, the date of the pillar is 319 A.D, which corresponds to the downfall of the Buddhist Gupta dynasty, it may perhaps be reasonably surmised that the origin was really...
View ArticleDeshpande, P. P., R. K. Mohanty, and V. S. Shinde."An Early Evidence of...
The Metallurgical investigations of ferrous objects excavated from the early Iron Age megalithic site at Naikund and Mahurjhari in Vidarbha, Maharashtra, India were carried out The analysis shows a...
View ArticleCole, Henry Hardy."Chapter VI. Ala-Ud-Din's Gateway." In The Architecture of...
THE Emperor Jelal-ud-din Firuz, the first of the Khilji dynasty, removed his court to Kaikubad to the south-east of Humayan's tomb. His accession accomplished the transfer of the throne from the Turks...
View ArticleCole, Henry Hardy."Chapter V. Shams-ud-din's Gateways and Tomb." In The...
IN the Tabkat Nasiri an account is given of the ancestry and early life of Shams-ud-din Altamsh, who rose to be the greatest of the slave-kings of Delhi. At first sight it seems remarkable that the...
View ArticleCole, Henry Hardy, and Charles Shepherd.Photograph XIII. Base of the Minar...
THIS view was taken from the east of the Minar, and includes the two first bands of inscription, the lower one being cut into the surface of the stone, whilst the upper one is raised about two inches...
View ArticleCole, Henry Hardy, and Charles Shepherd.Photograph XV. South-West Gateway In...
REFERRING to Plan No. II. it will be seen that a roadway passes through the central doorway (E) to the village of Mihroli. The view here photographed is taken from a point in the centre of the said...
View ArticleCole, Henry Hardy, and Charles Shepherd.Photograph XVII. Exterior of...
THE tomb of the Sultan Sharns-ud-din Altamsh is situated to the north-west of the Kutb ruins, and passed to the north by the road which leads from the Kutb Dak Bangalow to the village of Mihroli, about...
View ArticleCole, Henry Hardy, and Charles Shepherd.Photograph XVIII. Interior of...
THE interior of the tomb of the Emperor Shams-ud-din Altamsh consists of red sandstone and marble, and the sarcophagus in the centre of the square is of white marble. The wall to the west—which forms...
View ArticleCole, Henry Hardy, and Charles Shepherd.Photograph XVI. North-West Gateway In...
THE Gateway built by Shams-ud-din in A.D. 1229, on the northern flank of the Jumrna Masjid is in a still more ruinous condition than that described on the preceding pages. The arches which formerly...
View ArticleCole, Henry Hardy, and Charles Shepherd.Photograph XXI. Doorway on the...
THE interior of the doorway is, in its way, one of the most pleasing and agreeable sights of the Kutb buildings. The ornament, applied to the surface of the walls with a lavishness of carving scarcely...
View ArticleMisra, V. N.."Prehistoric human colonization of India."Journal of Biosciences...
Human colonization in India encompasses a span of at least half-a-million years and is divided into two broad periods, namely the prehistoric (before the emergence of writing) and the historic (after...
View ArticleMathur, Saloni."History and Anthropology in South Asia: Rethinking the...
This article examines the relationship between history and anthropology in South Asia during the past two decades, a relationship that has done much to shape the emerging intellectual practices of...
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