Ancient India and Indian civilization

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 FOREWORD, THE INDIAN GENIUS
 INTRODUCTION COUNTRY AND POPULATION
 I. THE COUNTRY
 II. THE POPULATION
 I. Racial and Linguistic Criteria
 II. The Indo-European Stock and the Aryan Branch
 PART ONE HISTORY
 I. THE PREHISTORIC PERIOD
 II. THE BEGINNINGS OF HISTORY. THE SIXTH AND FIFTH CENTURIES BEFORE CHRIST
 III. ALEXANDER. THE MAURYAS
 I. The Campaign of Alexander
 II. Chandragupta
 III. Asoka
 IV. INDO-GREEKS, INDO-PARTHIANS, INDO-SCYTHIANS. THE KUSHANS AND KANISHKA
 V. THE DECCAN TO THE THIRD CENTURY
 VI. THE GUPTAS. HUNS AND TURKS. HARSHA. PART TWO INDIAN SOCIETYINTRODUCTION
 I. THE FAMILY. ITS WORSHIP AND LAW
 I. The Worship of the Family
 II. The Law of the Family
 Dharma
 III. Women and Marriage
 IV. Property
 II. CASTE
 III. THE POLITICAL ORDER
 I. Spiritual Power and Temporal Power
 II. Artha and Dharma
 III. Republics
 Kingdoms
 IV. The Royal Office
 V. Assemblies
 VI. Justice
 VII. Administration
 IV. ECONOMIC LIFE
 I. Work and Business
 The workers
 Agriculture
 Industry
 Trade
 Guilds
 II. Property
 Land
 Revenues and Coinage
 State Socialism. The Poverty of India
 PART THREE SPIRITUAL LIFE. RELIGIONS AND PHILOSOPHIES. I. ORIGINSI. Pre-Aryan Origins
 The Munda Element
 Dravidian, Sumerian, and Semitic Elements
 II. The Religion of the Vedic Aryans and Early Brahmanism
 The Vedas
 Rites and Magic. The Natural Order
 Sacrifice and the Gods
 The Exegesis of the Vedas
 The Brahmanic Cult
 Metaphysical Mythology
 The Future Life
 II. EARLY JAINISM AND BUDDHISM
 I. Their Common Conditions
 Transmigration
 The New Notion of the Act
 The Aspiration to Deliverance
 The Influence of Yoga and the Sophists
 II. Jainism
 The Nirgranthas. Jina
 TheCommunity
 The Canons
 Archaism and Realism. The Substances. The Soul and its SalvationIII. Buddhism
 Buddha
 The Community. Councils. Sects
 The Canon
 The Literature of the Mahāyāna
 Dogma
 III. BRAHMANISM AS HINDUISM. THE RELIGIONS OF VISHNU AND SIVA
 Theism. Siva, Vishnu, Krishna, Rama
 TheAvatars. Eclecticism
 The Philosophy of the Epics
 The Transformation of Orthodoxy
 IV. THE GREAT VEHICLE
 Dialectic. Nagarjuna
 Concentration. Asvaghosha, Asanga, Vasubandhu
 The Sects
 TheNew Metaphysics
 Mythology
 V. PHILOSOPHY AT ITS HIGHEST DEVELOPMENT
 I. The Brahmanic Systems (A.D. 100-500)
 Pūrva Mīmāmsā
 Vaiśeshika
 Nyāya
 Vedānta
 Yoga
 Sāmkhya. II. The Philosophies in theSeventh CenturyOrthodox Commentators
 Jainism
 Buddhism
 III. The Characteristics of IndianThought
 Indian Science
 The Problems of India
 The Indian Conception of Mind
 PART FOUR ÆSTHETIC LIFE
 BOOK ONE THE LITERATURE OF INDIA
 INTRODUCTION
 I. The Languages of India
 II. Writing
 III. The Study of Indian Literature in Europe
 IV. The Literature of India
 I. VEDIC AND POST-VEDIC LITERATURE
 I. The Age of the Rigveda
 II. General Features of the Rigveda
 III. The Other Vedas
 The Sāmaveda, Yajurveda, and Atharvaveda
 IV. The Brāhmanas
 V. The Āranyakas and Upanishads.