The Vedanta Sutras Vol. 34 Part 1 The Sacred Books Of The East

The volume continues the History of Centra Asian Civiizations from c. 1500 to c. 1850, a period which saw the ast medieva empires notaby the Uzbeks, Safavids, Mughas and Dzungars, and witnessed the eary impact of cooniaism. ike the preceding voumes, the present one aso deas with a the diverse eements of cuture. It describes the ast phase of nomadism as a viabe system of socia organization; the effects on Centra Asian economies of the shift of the main ines of internationa trade from the Great Sik Route to the oceanic routes; the various schoos of art; the ast great age of cassica Persian iterature and the growth of Turkic iteratures; and, finay, in the reigious sphere, the Shi te triumph in Persia, the conversion of the Mongo peopes to Buddhism, and the rise of Sikhism. It aso anayses the probem of the ag in Centra Asian scientific and technoogica deveopment in reation to Europe and the nature of eary cooniaism-notaby British and Russian - in Centra Asia. The concusion sums up the main trends in Centra Asian history from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century.