Mukherjee, Bratindra Nath, Kushana coins of the Land of the Five Rivers, Calcutta, 1978, Indian Museum, 110 pages, 32 pages, hardcover with torn dusk jacket. The land of the five rivers or the Punjab area of the India subcontinent, now divided between the territories of the republics of India and Pakistan, has played an important role in Indian history. It was once very much a part of the Kushana empire, one of the greatest empires in ancient east. It was situated between the eastern and western provinces of the Kushana domain and was on the main routes from the west to the interior of the sub-continent. Its topographical position made it the natural meeting ground of peoples and cultures-spiritual and material, ex The Skanda Collection Library.
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