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# Archaeology, epigraphy and coins

Palaeography, epigraphy, chronology and eras, numismatics, prehistory and the Indus age

- **Contents:** 31 studies, 30 with text
- **Words:** 2,846,409

## Contents (31)

- [Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.burnell-1874) — English; A. C. Burnell
- [Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883) — English; Alexander Cunningham
- [भारतीय पराचीन लिपिमाला (Bharatiya Pracina Lipimala: The Palaeography of India) (भारतीय प्राचीन लिपिमाला (Bhāratīya Prācīna Lipimālā: The Palaeography of India))](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.ojha-1894) — Hindi; Gaurishankar Hirachand Ojha
- [On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet (On the Origin of the Indian Brāhma Alphabet)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1898) — English; G. Bühler
- [Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. (Indische Paläographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr.)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896) — German; G. Bühler
- [The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899) — English; C. Mabel Duff (Mrs. W. R. Rickmers)
- [Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1904) — English; G. Bühler, J. F. Fleet
- [Indian Chronology (Solar, Lunar and Planetary): A Practical Guide to the Interpretation and Verification of Tithis, Nakshatras, Horoscopes and other Indian Time-records, B.C. 1 to A.D. 2000](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.pillai-1911) — English; L. D. Swamikannu Pillai
- [Lectures on Ancient Indian Numismatics (Carmichael Lectures, 1921)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.bhandarkar-1921) — English; D. R. Bhandarkar
- [An Indian Ephemeris, A.D. 700 to A.D. 1799, showing the daily solar and lunar reckoning according to the principal systems current in India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.pillai-1922) — English; L. D. Swamikannu Pillai; catalogued, text not yet digitised
- [The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sewell-1932) — English; 1845–1925 CE; Robert Sewell, S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar
- [The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.hunter-1934) — English; G. R. Hunter
- [The Indus Civilization](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mackay-1935) — English; Ernest Mackay
- [Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.piggott-1950) — English; Stuart Piggott
- [Indian Epigraphy and South Indian Scripts](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sivaramamurti-1952) — English; C. Sivaramamurti
- [The Indus Civilization (Cambridge History of India, Supplementary Volume)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1953) — English; Mortimer Wheeler
- [The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.subbarao-1956) — English; B. Subbarao
- [The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957) — English; A. S. Altekar
- [Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959) — English; Mortimer Wheeler
- [Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sankalia-1962) — English; Hasmukh D. Sankalia
- [Indian Palaeography](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963) — English; Ahmad Hasan Dani
- [Indian Epigraphy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965) — English; D. C. Sircar
- [Early South Indian Palaeography](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahalingam-1967) — English; T. V. Mahalingam
- [The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-1977) — English; Iravatham Mahadevan
- [Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.salomon-1998) — English; Richard Salomon
- [Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003) — English; Iravatham Mahadevan
- [Elliot-1886](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.elliot-1886) — English
- [Cunningham-1891](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1891) — English
- [Cunningham-1894](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1894) — English
- [Rapson-1898](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.rapson-1897) — English
- [The Foote Collection of Indian Prehistoric and Protohistoric Antiquities: Notes on their Ages and Distribution](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.foote-1916) — English

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