Glimpses of Indian Culture - Ancient and Modern

Author: Pratap Chandra ChunderPublisher: Indian Museum CalcuttaYear: 2007Language: EnglishPages: 212ISBN/UPC (if available): N/A DescriptionThis valuable work, written by a noted Indologist Dr. Pratap Chandra Chunder, is broadly divided into two parts. In the first part the author has focused on Ancient India and the topics incorporated in the second part are particularly on Modern India. Collecting valuable materials from pre-historic and historic periods, Dr. Chunder made a comparative study of the ancient political systems of India and Iran. His comments on different Old Persian inscriptions are really fascinating. Dr. Chunder has shown that the great Persian Monarch Darius 'was impartial and actuated by a motive of general welfare'. Dr. Chunder also has thrown interesting light on the common concept of divine order in Ancient India and Iran. Dr. Chunder stated that "in Ancient India the term 'common code of conduct' implied a body of some ethical values and morally useful practices