TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thapar, Romila
TI  - Cultural pasts : : essays in early Indian history 
SN  - 9780195664874
U1  - 934 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - India
KW  - Ancient History
KW  - History
KW  - To 324 B.C
KW  - Civilization
KW  - 324 B.C.-1000 A.D
N1  - 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
N2  - 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.
ER  -