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Samedi, 24 Avril 2010 00:30 |
 Auteur de passionnants ouvrages sur l'Inde comme L'Inde et l'invasion de nulle part, Michel Danino nous informe que son ouvrage Sarasvatî, la rivière disparue vient d'être publié en anglais par Penguin India sous l'appellation The Lost River: On The Trail of the Sarasvati. Nous avons le pitch en anglais et les coordonnées de l'éditeur pour vous le procurer sans attendre...
"The Indian subcontinent was the scene of dramatic upheavals a few
thousand years ago. The Northwest region entered an arid phase, and
erosion coupled with tectonic events played havoc with river courses.
One of them disappeared. Celebrated as ‘Sarasvati’ in the Rig Veda and
the Mahabharata, this river was rediscovered in the early nineteenth
century through topographic explorations by British officials. Recently,
geological and climatological studies have probed its evolution and
disappearance, while satellite imagery has traced the river’s buried
courses and isotope analyses have dated ancient waters still stored
under the Thar Desert.
In the same Northwest, the subcontinent’s first urban society—the Indus
civilization—flourished and declined. But it was not watered by the
Indus alone: since Aurel Stein’s expedition in the 1940s, hundreds of
Harappan sites have been identified in the now dry Sarasvati’s basin.
The rich Harappan legacy in technologies, arts and culture sowed the
seeds of Indian civilization as we know it now.
Drawing from recent research in a wide range of disciplines, this book
discusses differing viewpoints and proposes a harmonious synthesis—a
fascinating tale of exploration that brings to life the vital role the
‘lost river of the Indian desert’ played before its waters gurgled to a
stop.
Disponible à
Penguin Books India
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