Bongard-Levin, G. M.

Dr. Grigorii Maximovich Bongard-Levin is a Russian historian, orientalists, member of the Russian Academy of the Sciences, author of more than 15 monographs and 250 articles on Indology and on the study of Central Asian Buddhist texts in Sanskrit. He is a member of the French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres.

Great Russian Historian M. Rostovtsev in the Usa the Years of Exile

1999 0-7734-3226-4
This is the definitive edition on the life and creative work of the great Russian historian of antiquity, philologist-classicist and archaeologist, Michael Rostovtsev, written by the world-renowned historian G. M. Bongard-Levin. The book covers the American period of his life (1920-1952) and reveals its many dramatic dimensions. It also focuses on the great scientific achievements of Academician Rostovtsev, as well as the scientific school he created at Yale University.

Indian Ethnogenesis: Social and Cultural History of Antiquity

2001 0-7734-3216-7
Sharp controversy still exists concerning the origins of the peoples of India. This book draws upon extensive research, applying a unique technique of linguistic analysis. The author also compares and establishes close links between India’s two national heritages – the material one, based on most recent archeological discoveries by scholars from America, Britain, France, India, and Russia, and also the cultural legacy involving reference to various masterpieces of world literature. References are also made to the antique tradition during Alexander the Great’s campaign, Aristobulus, Diodorus Siculus, Nearchus, Plutarch, Ptolemy, Strabo, and others. The author expertly examines the art of various civilizations, dynasties and periods; as well as folklore and ritual. This book, the result of 45 years of work, will interest Indologists, Orientalists, philologists, and literary scholars, as well as those interested in the interaction among cultures, philosophies and religions. This book is in Russian.