My latest book, "THE ARCHAEOASTRONOMY OF A FEW MEGALITHIC SITES OF JHARKHAND"

My latest book published on the first week of January 2018

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This book is precisely on a few archaeoastronomical megalithic sites of my home state of Jharkhand in East India. 

Megaliths in India are solely considered to be sepulchral or commemorative monuments. That a few are also associated with astronomy is not known and even not recognised by main stream archaeologists of the nation.

This book furnishes evidence how a set of megalithic proto-austroloid Kolarian Mundari tribes who still pursue megalithic burial practices built such megalithic complexes with precise astronomical alignments.

The book deals with 6 megalithic complexes of Furuka, Chano, Katia Murbey etc in both Hazaribagh and Chatra districts  which reveals positioning of the entire site and the stones within them with precise alignments to the notches and peaks of the encircling hills, towards significant sunrises and sets of solstices and equinoxes and even towards the cardinal points. The placements also reveal basic mathematics as ratios, hex-sectionings  et al. 

The book also deals with the general information on megaliths and even other purposes of these ancient monuments.

Thereafter the book sets an inquiry whether it were indeed the proto-austroloid Kolarian tribes who built these archaeoastronomical complexes. If so then why their present day megaliths are devoid of such sciences ? 

Could the makers of the temples be some unknown set of people?

The book questions what may have been the need of such astronomical megalithic temples and at the the same time attempts to provide a reasonable answer to this query.

Lavishly photographed and though written in a scholarly manner the book will induce interest even in the common people who would really want to know the left out unknown chapter of India's past.

The book is available in all the leading book stores of the country and even on-line. The book could also be bought from my publisher:

niyogibooks@gmail.com

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