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The Wonder that was India

其他書名	Vol. I A Survey of the History and Culture of the Indian Sub-continent Before the Coming of the Muslims
出版	Royal Book Company, 2004
ISBN	93891093459789389109344
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DyqKtwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The book the wonder that was India is a brilliant early history of one of the oldest civilisations. When it was first published in the United Kingdom in 1954, it became an instant hit, as it would in the United states a few years later. Since then it has consistently found an avid readership all over the world, been translated into many languages, and has educared and entertained generations of general readers, serious students and travellers to India. This edition celebrates its fifty years in print with a foreword by Thomas R Trautmann, professor at the University of Michigan and once Basham's student, which brings alive the man and the academic behind this cherished volume and illuminates the historical influences upon it. The Wonder that was India is a classic that anybody with an interest in the civilisational beginnings of India must read. It is a work of uncompromising scholarship and a labour of love.