Empires of the Indus: the story of a River (Record no. 365314)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780719560033
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 954.983
Item number A5E6
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Albinia, Alice
9 (RLIN) 56177
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Empires of the Indus: the story of a River
Statement of responsibility, etc. Albinia, Alice
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. John Murray
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2008
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvii, 366 p
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price type code INR
Price amount 550.00
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. For millennia it has been worshipped as a god; for centuries used as a tool of imperial expansion; today it is the cement of Pakistan's fractious union. Five thousand years ago, a string of sophisticated cities grew and traded on its banks. In the ruins of these elaborate metropolises, Sanskrit-speaking nomads explored the river, extolling its virtues in India's most ancient text, the Rig-Veda. During the past two thousand years a series of invaders -- Alexander the Great, Afghan Sultans, the British Raj -- made conquering the Indus valley their quixotic mission. For the people of the river, meanwhile, the Indus valley became a nodal point on the Silk Road, a center of Sufi pilgrimage and the birthplace of Sikhism. Empires of the Indus follows the river upstream and back in time, taking the reader on a voyage through two thousand miles of geography and more than five millennia of history redolent with contemporary importance.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Indus river - History
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Koha item type Book
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Withdrawn status Lost status Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Source of acquisition Total Checkouts Total Renewals Full call number Barcode Date last seen Date last checked out Cost, replacement price Price effective from Koha item type
        Non-fiction Ahmedabad Ahmedabad   26/09/2008 Natraj Book Centre 1 5 954.983 A5E6 166188 17/10/2017 16/02/2016 550.00 09/04/2020 Book

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