Author: Das, Amarnath
Title: India and Jambu Island, Showing Changes in Boundaries and River-courses of India and Burmah
Description: Delhi, Gian Publishing House, (1986). reprint, orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 22x14cm, vii,343 pp, A facsimile reprint of the 1931 edition. In a torn and rubbed dustwrapper.. Folding map.. Rubbed. Binding corner bumps. Some top page-edge soil. Good. ¶ Contents: Taprobane Island of Ptolemy is the Peninsular Portion of India, Subsequently Joined to Mainland; Confirmation of the Southern Coast-Line of India by Periplus of the Erythrean Sea; Taprobane Island & Southern Coast of India as described by Other Greek Writers; Courses of Rivers Falling into the Sea on the Southern Coast of India as Given by Ptolemy; & Identification of Towns near Them, Reclamation of the Sea, between Taprobane Island and Sub-Vindhya Mainland of India and round Taprobane, with Consequent Changes in River Course; Western Boundary of Ptolemy's India, Eastern Boundary of Ptolemy's Intra-Gangen India, & Rivers Falling into the Gangetikus Sinus; The Ganges of Ptolemy; Major Changes in the Course of the Ganges; Intra-Gangem India or Bharatvarsa as described in Ancient Literature; Extra-Gangem India of Ptolemy & Jambu-dvipa of Puranas;General Observations Regarding the Changes in India & Burmah, touching Briefly on Mahabharata & Ramayana Areas & Flow of Aryan Colonisation; Glossary of Local Terms used in Place-Names &c. in India & Burmah.

Keywords: Ancient Indian Geography, Historical, Geographical, Classical Antiquity, Ancient Greece, Greek Literature, Ptolemy, Historiography, Literary History