{"product_id":"archaeoastronomy-of-few-megalithic-sites-of-jharkhand-nap641","title":"The Archaeoastronomy of a Few Megalithic Sites of Jharkhand","description":"\u003ch2 class=\"title is-size-3-desktop is-size-5-touch has-text-centered product-details-description-title\"\u003eBook Specification\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ctable\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eItem Code:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003eNAP641\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/pt\/book-author\/subhashis%20das\" class=\"underlined\" title=\"Subhashis Das\"\u003eSubhashis Das\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/pt\/book-publisher\/trisha\" class=\"underlined\" title=\"Trisha\"\u003eTrisha\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003eEnglish\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eEdition:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e2018\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eISBN:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e9789386906168\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003ePages:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e140 (Throughout Color Illustrations)\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eCover:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003eHardcover\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eOther Details\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd rel=\"product-dimensions\"\u003e9.0 inch X 6.0 inch\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eWeight\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd rel=\"product-weight\"\u003e460 gm\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003c\/table\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch2 class=\"title is-size-3-desktop is-size-5-touch has-text-centered product-details-description-title\"\u003eBook Description\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"product-details-description\" style=\"max-height: 63rem; overflow-y: auto;\"\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbout The Book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:justify;\"\u003e This authoritive book on astronomy in megalities of Jharkhand –replete with fine photographs –is a necessary and timely production that clarifies and improves the way to regard ancient Jharkhand and India and her compelling megalithic prehistory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:justify;\"\u003e Subashis Das presents a valuable study of astronomy in the mealiths of his part of East India which is not only helpful to researchers conversant with the subject but of general interest for everyone who is concerned about the importance and safety of these megalith survivors from a far distant past.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:justify;\"\u003e A wonderful new window to a relatively unknown part of Indian history. This lovely with many beautiful photographs will transport the reader to the reader to the fascianting world of astronomy in Indian megalithis and open up a whole new way of looking at our past.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:justify;\"\u003e The Archaeoastronomy of a Few Megalithic Sites of Jharkhand discards the belief that megalithis are only sepulchral monuments and illustrates that they also served as temples of the ubiquitous Mother Goddesses of the fertility cult.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:justify;\"\u003e It reveals that a few of the megalithic sites in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand stand in compliance with fundamental mathematics and observational astronomy. Apart from establishing elaborate burials inside these complexes and revering them as temples. The prehistoric astronomerpriests also intended these megaliths as calenders for the community. Used to determine the specific dates on which their family rites were to be conducted.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:justify;\"\u003e Lavishly illustrated and cogently written, the book elucidates megaliths and contends that their presence across the country, them their presence across the country, from Kashmir to Kerala and from Manipur to Gujrat, is a testimony to India's tribal prehistory. It showcases the archaeoastronomical megalithic temples of Jharkhand, indicating that the tribes were congnisant of mathematics and horizon astronomy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:justify;\"\u003e This much –needed volume hopes to initate a lively debate as also persuade people to know more about megalisths and their makers, and makes essential reading for those seeking to explore aspects of prehistoric India.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbout The Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/center\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e Subhashis Das is an explorer and independent researcher dealing with megaliths and India's hiterto unknwon tribal past. Credited with the discovery of numerous megliths, he has previously authered three volumes on his research. Das is recognised for the discovery ofa pplied astronomy in several megaliths in Jharkhand.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e The author's discoveries and research on the megaliths of Jharkhand feature in the state's hsitory books. His findings have also been showcased in several documentaries by National Geographic, Doordarshan, et al. He regularly gives lectures across the country, and abroad, onmegaliths and tribalism –a task he deems essential for understanding the ancient history of India.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cb\u003ePreface\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:justify;\"\u003e Migration of the various Proto –Australoid Kolarian Mundari tribes into India commenced in the early part of the second millennium BC. They trekked to India from Sumer\/Chaldea via the various mountain passes alond the North –West Frontier, bringing with them their culture, religion, and a technology of megalith –making applying astronomy and mathematics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:justify;\"\u003e Numerious sources indicate the presence of various Kolarian and Dravidian Kurukh\/Kidikh –speaking tribes in the Harappa region of what is now Pakistan and western India. Several Adivasis, such as the authors of the Indus Valley Civilisation. Their claim also finds resonance in their forltales and songs. The Santal still chant of the glory of 'Sinjho Nai', the name used by them to refer to the river Sindhu or Indus. Recorded in Santal traditions are distinct events believed to have taken place during the course of the tribe's prologed stay in the Indus region. If that were the case, a variety of Mundari languages, too, must have been ubiquitous in the region. Southworth staunchly believed in the prevalence of a para-Munda speech in ther area (Southworth 2005, 328 -329). Michael Witzel reckons that the Indus area may have been a multingual and multi –ethnic region with a prevalent para –Mundari language among others, Jaidev Baghel, a distinguished Dokra craftsman from Chattisgarh and a Kolarian tribal, also maintains that tribal Dokra craftsmanship had widely profilerated the Indus region.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:justify;\"\u003e These non-Aryan tribals subsequently moved from the Indus and other provinces in the west and gradually spread to regions of northern, central and eastern India. The proponderance of Mundari names for towers, villages, rivers, and hills across these regions alludes to a time in the country's past that once was predominally tribal, prior to her Aryanisation. Such names also validate the Mundari and Dravidian Kurukh\/Kudukh –speaking people's tales of migration into India through these tracks, wherein they named villages, hills, rivers, etc. in their respective languages wherever they dwelled during prehistory, many of which still remain in use. The name Kurukshetra, for instance, implies that the place was the kshetra or region of Kurukh –speaking tribes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:justify;\"\u003e The megaliths at Asota in Pakistan and Burzahom in Indian Kashmir are seemingly enduring testimonials of the eastward migration of megalithic tribes during prehistory. While a few ancient megaliths are extant in localities with tribal populations, others, such as the one at Deosa in Rajasthan, have been demolished and their stones appropriated for mundane domestic purpose.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:justify;\"\u003e That tribals are a cultured lot with their own societal constructs is not acknowledged by the populace at large. Aryan attitudes and texts, not having cared to delve deeper into tribal culture, consider tribalism barbaric and uncivilised. Regardless of such blatant misinformation, the tribals, who although do not boast of any script or written literature, preserve a fine history of their community in the form of folklore and tradition, and by way of archaelogical relics known as megaliths. Such folklore, spurned both by historians and scholars as inconsequential, yet deemed by many to be oral history, is indeed as noterworthy as any written text. The populave at large should at large should be apprised that Adivasi culture is indeed very rich and prosperous, with their own forms of democratic governance, social set –up, medicine, music, arts and crafts, religion, and mathematics and astronomy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:justify;\"\u003e Although India is a treasure trove of megaliths, as is evident from the presence of these ancient monuments across the country, from Kashmir to Kerala and from Tripura to Gujrat, they have not been paid much heed by historians and archaeologies as being significant relics of our preshistory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:justify;\"\u003e The surface positioning of prehistoric megalithic complexes reveal that many of them were consciously established employing mathematical priciples. These then serve as confirmation of the fact that these ancient unknown and unamed people were not a lesser set of beings. as is commonly assumed, but were persons adept in simple mathematics and astronomy, preceding Aryan mathematician –astronomers like Baudhayana, Aryabhata, Varahamihira. Etal. By thousands of years.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eContent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/center\u003e \u003ctable width=\"100%\"\u003e \u003ctbody\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd width=\"95%\"\u003e Content\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd width=\"5%\"\u003e Page No.\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Preface\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e IX\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e An Overview\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 1\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Hills are Sacred\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 5\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Megaliths of Jharkhand\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 9\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e The Sites\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 29\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Channo\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Furuka\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Punkri Burwadith\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Katia Murbey\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Birbir\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Obra\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Prevailing Status of the Megaliths\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 105\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Parting Thoughts\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 111\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Acknowledgements\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 117\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e References\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 119\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Index\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 124\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003c\/tbody\u003e \u003c\/table\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cfont color=\"red\" size=\"5\"\u003eSample Pages\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.exoticindia.com\/images\/products\/original\/books-2017\/nap641a.jpg\"\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.exoticindia.com\/images\/products\/original\/books-2017\/nap641b.jpg\"\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.exoticindia.com\/images\/products\/original\/books-2017\/nap641c.jpg\"\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.exoticindia.com\/images\/products\/original\/books-2017\/nap641d.jpg\"\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.exoticindia.com\/images\/products\/original\/books-2017\/nap641e.jpg\"\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.exoticindia.com\/images\/products\/original\/books-2017\/nap641f.jpg\"\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Occultnthings","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44623525609773,"sku":"NAP641","price":30.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2094\/2117\/products\/nap641.jpg?v=1677796132","url":"https:\/\/occultnthings.com\/pt\/products\/archaeoastronomy-of-few-megalithic-sites-of-jharkhand-nap641","provider":"Occult-N-Things","version":"1.0","type":"link"}