Time Pieces - Nayanjot Lahiri - 2020
A Whistlestop Tour of Ancient India
By: Nayanjot Lahiri
Narrated by: Nandita Dubey
Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 04-10-20
Categories: History, India
Language: English
Publisher: Audible Studios
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
'There are many missing pieces in the jigsaw puzzle that is ancient India, but those we have yield a rich tapestry."
The oldest surviving love graffiti on a cave wall immortalizing an intimate bond in the third century BCE; charred seeds and chewed animal bones that provide evidence of a peoples' food obsessions; architectural minutiae that point to the alarming regression of a civilization's potty habits; intriguing sculptures that reveal myriad facets of the human-animal relationship.
In Time Pieces, award-winning historian Nayanjot Lahiri whimsically sifts through intricate clues left behind by the early inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent - in plaques and inscriptions, fragments of jewellery, bones and tools, poetry, art and pottery - to reveal to us our ancient land in all its variety, splendour, complexity and contradictions. Sparkling with wit and reflective of a scholar's keen and curious energy, this delightful volume seamlessly connects the past to the present and a civilization to the world beyond.
©2018 Nayanjot Lahiri (P)2020 Audible, Inc.
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