India. Ethnolinguistic history, political and social structure, written heritage and culture

A collection of articles by the famous Russian orientalist and Buddhologist Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a foreign member of the French Academy G.M. Bonggard-Levin contains essays on the history and culture of ancient India. The book considers the most debatable issues of the ethnogenesis of the peoples of India, the origin of the Indo -Aryans, Dravids, the peoples of Mund, the relationship of Indo -Aryans with other ethnic groups in the era of antiquity, the problems of the social and state structure, the caste organization, the republican authority in ancient India, the main features of Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, Hinduism, Hinduism, Hinduism The written heritage of ancient Indian civilization, the influence of Indian culture on the culture of Central and South Asia. The book is equipped with rich illustrative material.
For historians, philologists, archaeologists and all those interested in the history of one of the oldest civilizations of mankind