Religions of Early India: A Cultural History
How four traditions grew up alongside and against each other in early India, then spread across the south and east. The background that later history keeps assuming.
Vedic religion, Buddhism, Jainism and early Hinduism developed alongside and against one another, and Davis follows all four as they spread across South and Southeast Asia. It avoids the common failure of becoming too technical to be useful, and functions as the background that later Indian history keeps assuming its readers already have.
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Tyler Cowen
A very useful background read for understanding later Indian history and religions, as well as the more general spread of religion throughout the southern regions of Asia. Avoids the common mistake of becoming too obscure on these topics.
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