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    : : : — fm List of Important People Chapter 7; Bricks, Beads and Bones Important Persons and Their Roles ‘Alexander The first Director. ingha General of the ica’ i Cunningham | often called the a eucnis ae Survey of India (ASI), Daya Ram Discovered seals een ae at Harappa in the early decades of the twentieth, y. In layers that were much older than Early Historic levels Rakha Das | Found seals at Mohenjodaro similar to those at Harappa, leading othe Baner) Conjecture that these sites were part of a single archaeological culture Sir John Director-General of the ASI (1902-28); announced the discovery of Marshall New civilisation in the Indus valley to the world in 1924; tended to | excavate along regular horizontal units, measured uniformly throughout the mound, ignoring the stratigraphy of the site REM Wheeler | Took over as Director-General ofthe ASTin 10445 recognised the | necessity to follow the stratigraphy of the mound rather than dig mechani rm horizontal lines enteral ast India Company who deciphered the Brahmi and th |lames Prinsep | OMicer ofthe Kharoshthi scripis : Founded the Mauryan empire (c. 321 BCE) and extended contro! as rar north-west as Afghanistan and Baluchistan |Chandragupta ful of the Gupia ru composed the Prayaga Prashasti [Samudragupta e court poet 0! Was the coun Per lahabad Pillar nse | Harishena 2) ee Chapter 3: Kinship, Caste and Class | VS Sukthankar Led the project on preparing The Mahabharata’s critical edition BB Lal ‘Led the excavation of Hastinapura al JAB van Buitenen Started the project on translating The Mahabharata’s critics | | edition into English Chapter 4: Thinkers, Beliefs and Buildings Peer Cu Ace ene MU uae Sultan Jehan | Ruler of Bhopal and successor to Shahjehan Begum; John Marshall Begum | dedicated his important volumes on Sanchi; funded the museum that was built there as well as the guesthouse where Marshall lived and wrote the volume: also funded the publication of the volume Vardhamana | According to the Jaina tradition, he was preceded by 23 other teachers Mahavira of tirthankaras; questioned the authority of the Vedas and emphasised on individual agency in achieving liberation from the cycles of birth and | rebirth Gautama Named Siddhartha at birth, he was the son of the chief of the Sakya clan; Buddha questioned the authority of the Vedas and emphasised on individual | ageney in achieving liberation from the eycles of birth and rebirth: taught the way of or the path of righteous living Zarathustea _ | Founder of Zoroastrianism, emphasised on monotheism Kong Zi Also known as Confucius, he was Chine: | theorist e philosopher and pol | Plato Greek philosopher, founder of the Academy; wrote the famous work The Republic crates A Greek philosopher before the times of Plato and Aristotle; his thoughts had a great influence on Western philosophy Aristotle k philosopher; student of Plato; author of th opie e famous work Politic jade significant contributions in other fields of stud: i i Is of study like poetics, ethics. physics, metaphysics, thetories, ete, Te Mahapajapati__ | Buddha’s foster mother; the first woman to join the sangha as a bhikkhuni | Gotami Colin Visited the site of Amaravati sor fter i aravati Some Years after its discovery; | Mackenzie __| several pieces of sculpture 3 coven) uaa and made detailed drawings of them AL-Biruni Traveller who came to India from Khwa the 11" century; author of Kitab-ul-Hind Ibn Battuta ‘Moroccan traveller who was born in Tangier who came during the 14" century; served as qazi under Muhammad Tughlag: author of Rihla Frangois Bernier |< xe ‘A Frenchman who was a doctor, political philosopher and | | came to the Mughal Empire in search of oppo: and in India for twelve years, ftom 1656 to 1668; with the Mughal court, as a physician to Prince Dara Shukeh Manucei Italian traveller and doctor who had settled down in India Akbar Danishmand Khan ‘Mughal emperor during the second half ofthe 16" century» ‘Armenian noble at the Mughal court who was contemporary to Bernier King Louis XIV | King of France during Bemier’s time; Bernier’s major writings dedicated to him Abu'l Fazl Court historian of Akbar; wrote the Ain-i-Akbari Duarle Barbosa _| Portuguese traveller who provided a detailed account of trade and | society in South India rl Muhammad bin | Sultan of Delhi during the 13 century Tughlag Abd al-Razzaq ‘A diplomat from Herat who visited India during the 15" Samargandi his account provides detailed description of Vijayanagara Jean-Baptiste A French jeweller and traveller who came to India at least six: Tavernier |Prince Dara Shukoh | Eldest son of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan Mahmud of Ghazni Sultan of Ghazni an the 11° century; AL-Birani was: hostages during his raid of Khwarizm a Malik Muhammad Coo ok Be i pea (Yea) SC are Jayasi around the romance of Padmini and Ratansen, : = Kabir ‘A poct-sint daring the 14%15® centuries; composed ver ee overlapping traditions; Adi Granth Sahib, Kabir Panth and Kabir _| Granthavali — Mirabai A Rajput princess from Merta; best-known woman poet within the Bhakti tradition; devotee of Krishna : Guru Nanak Advocated a form of nirguna bhakti; firmly repudiated the extemal practices of the religions he saw around him; rejected sacrifices, ritual baths, image worship, austerities and the scriptures of both Hindus and Muslims; believed that the Absolute or ‘rab*hadno | nder or form Guru Tegh Bahadur | Ninth guru of the Sikh tradition j Guru Govind Singh | Laid the foundation of the Khalsa Panth (amy of the pure) and defined its five symbols; under him, the community got consolidated 4s a socio-religious and military force Shankaradeva Emerzed as one of the leading proponents of Vaishnavism ij Assam] in the 15" century; his teachings, often known as the Bhagavati | dharma focused on absolute surrender to the supreme deity 1 Chapter 7: An Imperial Capital ee Colin Mackenzie Was an engineer, Harihara and Bukka | Founders of the Vijayanagara Empire in 1336 CF Krishnadeva Raya Ruler of Vijayanazara; belonged to the Tuluva dynastys the Raichur doab, subdued the ruf, e Sfys congui defeat were inflicted on the Sultan of Big e ilicted 5 Lstot important People _ 378 a nd the S Chapter 8: Peasants, Zaminda' Feces lina ro [Jean-Baptiste ‘A seventeenth-century Freneh traveller to India Tavern = : = = — , Rene

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