Readings in early Indian history / Romila Thapar.

By:

Thapar, Romila

Publisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2013Description: x, 492 pages : map ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780198083764 (pbk.)
0198083769 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

India -- History

DDC classification:

934 THA-2 23

LOC classification:

DS436 .T375 2013

Contents:

Table of Contents Introduction SECTION I: HISTORIOGRAPHY: 1. Decolonising the Past 2. Society and Historical Consciousness 3. The Contribution of D.D. Kosambi to Indology SECTION II: ECONOMY AND SOCIETY: 4. Society in Ancient India 5. Lineage Society 6. The Evolution of the State in the Ganga Valley 7. Black Gold: South Asia and the Roman Maritime Trade SECTION III: CHANGING POLITICAL FORMATIONS: 8. The Mauryan Empire in Early India 9. Society and Economic Activity 10. Text and Context: Megasthenes and the Seven Castes 11. Asoka: A Retrospective SECTION IV: RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIETY: 12. Ideology. Society and the Upanisads 13. The Householder and the Renouncer 14. Patronage and the Community SECTION V: TOWARDS FURTHER CHANGE: 15. Inscriptions as Historical Writing in Early India, 3rd BC to 6th AD 16. Threshold Times Index

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Essays; previously published.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents
Introduction
SECTION I: HISTORIOGRAPHY:
1. Decolonising the Past
2. Society and Historical Consciousness
3. The Contribution of D.D. Kosambi to Indology
SECTION II: ECONOMY AND SOCIETY:
4. Society in Ancient India
5. Lineage Society
6. The Evolution of the State in the Ganga Valley
7. Black Gold: South Asia and the Roman Maritime Trade
SECTION III: CHANGING POLITICAL FORMATIONS:
8. The Mauryan Empire in Early India
9. Society and Economic Activity
10. Text and Context: Megasthenes and the Seven Castes
11. Asoka: A Retrospective
SECTION IV: RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIETY:
12. Ideology. Society and the Upanisads
13. The Householder and the Renouncer
14. Patronage and the Community
SECTION V: TOWARDS FURTHER CHANGE:
15. Inscriptions as Historical Writing in Early India, 3rd BC to 6th AD
16. Threshold Times
Index

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