About the Book: Researches Into the History And Civilization of the Kiratas
This is a pioneering in-depth study of the life and culture of the Kiratas from
the prehistoric age down to the end of the twentieth century A.D. It covers
their primitive life and culture, social and, economic condition, policy,
administration, religion, philosophy, art, language, literature, and cultural
contacts with different Aryan and non-Aryan social groups. The Kirata habitats
in janapadas in the epics and Puranic texts, their kingdoms, principalities,
urban culture, subjugation by the contepmporary rulers, dynastic rule in
northern India and Nepal, the role in every period of Indian history, based on a
large number