The First Spring Part 1 Life in the Golden Age of India

Part One of a brilliant study of ancient Indian civilization. For about a thousand years from around the middle of the first millennium BCE to around the middle of the first millennium CE India was a prosperous and marvellously creative civilization. The unprecedented economic prosperity that India enjoyed in the first half of the first millennium CE was a crucial catalyst that energized the flowering of the classical Indian civilization. In Part One of The First Spring (Life in the Golden Age of India) Abraham Eraly unfolds a profoundly illuminating panorama covering the political history polity economy society family and everyday life of an age that flowered luxuriantly before its inevitable decay.