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Mega Mammals in Ancient India: Rhinos, Tigers, and Elephants

Mega Mammals in Ancient India: Rhinos, Tigers, and Elephants

Bose, Shibani

Hardcover

Ancient History GeneralIndian & South Asian HistoryNature Writing

ISBN10: 019012041X
ISBN13: 9780190120412
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Published: Sep 2 2020
Pages: 382
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
The book ventures to look into eras bygone in order to chronicle the passage of three mega species-the rhinoceros, tiger, and elephant across millennia in early north India. It carefully sifts through an archive comprising faunal remains and visual depictions retrieved from the archaeological record as well as a gamut of Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit, and classical Western accounts to document the presence of these big mammals in various cultural niches from hunter-gatherer societies to the first urban civilization of India and beyond. The narrative goes beyond treating these species as mere cultural icons to one that is also sensitive to their importance as markers of ecology. The focus is two-fold: to comprehend perceptions, attitudes, and sensibilities oscillating between veneration and persecution in order to reconstruct the cultural dimensions of human-megafaunal relations in the past, as also to use these species to understand the larger ecology of ancient India.

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