Cultural pasts : essays in early Indian history / by Romila Thapar
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: xii, 1156 p. : illISBN: - 9780195664874
- 0195664876
- 934 THA-C
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| 934 SOU-M Mechanics of city and village in ancient India / | 934 SOU-M Mechanics of city and village in ancient India / | 934 THA-A Ancient Indian social history : | 934 THA-C Cultural pasts : | 934 THA-I Interpreting early India / | 934 TRI-R The rise of civilization in the Gangetic plain : | 934 TRI-R The rise of civilization in the Gangetic plain : |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents : Chapter 1. Histography--Chapter 2. Social and cultural transactions--Chapter 3. Archaeology and history --Chapter 4. pre-Mauryan and Mauryan India--Chapter 5. Forms of exchange--Chapter 6. The society of heroes in the epics and the later tradition of venerating heroes-- Chapter 7. Genealogics and origin myths--Chapter 8. The social context of the renouncer--Chapter 9. The present in the past.
This collection of papers and lectures on early lectures on early Indian history by one of India's foremost historians focuses on historiography and the changing dimensions of social and cultural history.
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