ANCIENT INDIA Published by: a IRS ACRDEMY Paes 1 poms ie en 8 ns ap Cs. nono. 253 34 Mabe 940Module 1- A) Pre-historic cultures .. B) Indus Valley Civilization. CO) Vedic Culture... Module 2~- A) Post Vedic Period .... B) Mauryan Perio ©) Post Mauryan Period... Sangam Perio Module 3- A) Gupta Perio, B) Post ~Gupta Period .. B) Philosophy..The first people who carved temples at Ellora were Buddhists ictions held together by strong but invisible threads. She is a myth and an idea, a dream and a Vision, and yet very real and present and pervasive. There are terrifying glimpses of dark corridors which seem to lead back to primeval night but also there is the fullness and warmth of the day about her. She is very lovable and none of her children can forget her wherever they go or whatever strange fate befalls them. For she is part of them in her greatness as well as her filings, and they are mirrored in those deep eyes of hers that have seen so much of life’s passion and joy and folly and looked down into wisdom’s well. Each one of them is drawn to her, though perhaps each has a different reason for that attraction or can point tono reason at all, and each sees some different aspect of her many sided personality. From age to age she has produced great men and women, carrying on the old tradition and yet ever adapting it to changing times.......” i [= is a geographical and economic entity, a cultural unity amidst diversity, a bundle of contra- “India will find herself again when freedom opens out new horizons and the future will then fascinate her far more than the immediate past of frustration and humiliation. She will go forward with confidence, rooted in herself and yet eager to learn from others and co-operate with them..... We have to think in terms of people generally, and their culture must be a continuation and development of past trends, and must also represent their new urges and creative tendencies”. “We are citizens of no mean country and we are proud of the land of our birth, of our people, our culture and traditions. That pride should not be for a romanticized past to which we want to cling; nor should it encourage exclusiveness or a want of appreciation of other ways than ours. It must never allow us to forget our many weaknesses and failings or blunt our longing to be rid of them. We have a Jong way to go and much leeway to make up before we can take our proper station with others in the van of human civilization and progress. It was India’s way in the past to welcome and absorb other cultures, That is much more necessary today, for we march to the one world of tomorrow where national cultures will be intermingled with the international culture of the human race. Thus we shall remain true Indians..... and become at the same time good internationalists and world citizens”. | Jawahar Lal Nehru in “The Discovery of India”