Hidden Horizons Unearthing 10,000 Years of Indian Culture.

by David Frawley

180 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2017

About the author

David Frawley (or Vāmadeva Śāstrī वामदेव शास्त्री), b. 1950, is an American Hindu teacher (acharya) and author, who has written more than thirty books on topics such as the Vedas, Hinduism, Yoga, Ayurveda and Vedic astrology, published both in India and in the United States. He is the founder and director of the American Institute of Vedic Studies in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which offers educational information on Yoga philosophy, Ayurveda, and Vedic astrology. He works closely with the magazine Hinduism Today, where he is a frequent contributor.[1] He is associated with a number of Vedic organizations in several countries. He is a Vedic teacher (Vedacharya), Vaidya (Ayurvedic doctor), and a Jyotishi (Vedic astrologer).

Reviews

[Praveen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good read. Redundant at times, but reasonable justification using natural history and geological means to establish that Indian culture must have been one of the most proficient in the ancient world, older than Sumeria, Egypt and other renowned western civilizations.

One can't argue with the synopsis that literary works like the vedas can only come into existence on the back of an equally grand civilization that it portrays

[Alok Singh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hidden horizons indeed!! The book takes you through the glorious vistas of the ancient golden era. The great Indian culture that continues through oldest of times. The book awakens a curiosity in mind to know more about the glorious Vedic culture.

[karun jamwal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Engrossing and true account of the Indian History taking us back to Vedic period and even further upto the Ice and Post Ice Age. The modern reader especially the youth will be entranced with the content of the book. It doesn't come as a surprise that most of us are unlettered when it comes to the Great Indian History and predominantly the Western History has influenced us a lot. This book will be eye opening and will act like a cultural experience all together. By the middle of the book one realises how India Provides a Wealth of Wisdom, Inspiration and Insight that remains relevant today to all the people of the world. Reader will read how the Natural History of Tropical Asia shows that the origins of Indian Civilization go back to the end of last ice age more than 10,000 years ago.
One have to agree after reading that ancient history of India still need revision in light of both recent scientific information and a more accurate study of India's own venerable literature.
To conclude I would say that the History of India is one of the greatest Cultural and Spritual adventure and same has been aesthetically penned down in this book.

[Debbi]

Rather disappointing. I was expecting a history of India from 10,000 ago to the present, albeit in abbreviated form due to the limits of a 150 page book. Instead, this book is a set of varied glimpses of what the authors understand as the Western viewpoint of miniscule segments of Indian history and their own protracted refutations and denials of the veracity of those viewpoints. As a case in point, the authors believe that Western scholarship teaches that the Indo-European Language Family demonstrates that European influences are the source of any similarities between Indian and European languages. In fact the reverse is true. In my linguistics courses, here in the USA, I was taught that Indian languages and dialects are the source of many words in the European family of languages and are what ties them together. For every aspect of religion, spirituality, astronomy, mathematics, and other sciences or history that anyone outside India has "discovered" or recognized; the authors claim an earlier--sometimes millennia earlier--discovery or recognition from India. It ends up being just over 150 pages of one-up-manship. While accepting that India's history extends much further back than often recognized by the West, and there is every possibility that deep in its past India may have been the home of many discoveries; to expend this much time and energy just to minimize the discoveries of others does not qualify one's writing as "history."

[Aru · Rating 1 out of 5]

my dad made me read this summer of 2016 and i hated every page of it