Книга "India Discovered: The Recovery of a Lost Civilization" рассказывает о том, как индийская цивилизация, которую двести лет назад считали малоизвестной и малозначительной, сегодня восхищает своей богатой историей и уникальной культурой. Автор книги реконструирует историю того, как произошла эта удивительная смена восприятия, благодаря научным открытиям и сенсационным открытиям последних лет. В книге описываются эмоции от раскопок города, который оказался старше Рима, открытия того, что Будда был не божеством, а исторической фигурой, знакомство с богатейшей литературой, с архитектурой, которая поражает воображение, а также с удивительными скульптурами, которые в свое время были для белых людей непонятны. Ответы на эти загадки привели к революционным изменениям в представлениях о цивилизации в целом, не только в Индии. Эта книга является продолжением работ автора книг "India: A History" и "The Great Arc".
Two hundred years ago India was considered a country with a limited history and cultural heritage. Now it is recognized as being home to a remarkable prehistory and an impressive classical period, along with an ancient cultural tradition whose forms and evolution are unique. This remarkable change in the perception of India is the topic of this captivating book.
This book retraces the multifaceted scholarship, which opened up through a series of groundbreaking discoveries. It recreates the exhilaration of finding a two-hundred-year-old ancient city, realising that the Greek Buddha was positively a historical being, appreciating the riches of a literary corpus equally as wondrous as what lies within European realm, experiencing the connect on finding a bluntly delightful Sistine Chapel a nut deep in those convoluted jungles, and finally looking outwards to categorise the ‘ultimate astounding illustrates of longevity’.
Key to all this rides the initiative taken by men working for the British East India Company. Their evaluation of the exotics – the explicit sexual figurines, the impossible scripts, residual architecture – along with the disciples who followed in their footsteps, transformed mindsets not only of those concerning India, but also those looking to civilization from the perspective of whiteness.
John Keay's other works include India: A History in The Great Arc and Promised Land.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9780007399642
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Two hundred years ago, India was seen as a place with little history and less culture.Today it is revered for a notable prehistory, a magnificent classical age and a cultural tradition unique in both character and continuity. How this extraordinary change in perception came about is the subject of this fascinating book.The story, here reconstructed for the first time, is one of painstaking scholarship primed by a succession of sensational discoveries. The excitement of unearthing a city twice as old as Rome, the realization that the Buddha was not a god but a historical figure, the glories of a literature as rich as anything known in Europe, the drama of encountering a veritable Sistine chapel deep in the jungle, and the sheer delight of categorizing ‘the most glorious galaxy of monuments in the world’ fell, for the most part, to men who were officials of the British Raj. Their response to the unfamiliar – the explicitly sexual statuary, the incomprehensible scripts, the enigmatic architecture – and the revelations which resulted, revolutionized ideas not just about India but about civilization as a white man’s prerogative.A companion volume by the author of the highly praised India: A History and The Great Arc.
