Interrogating history : Essays for Hermann Kulke / edited by Martin Brandtner, Shishir Kumar Panda. - New Delhi : Manohar Publishers & Distributors : Distributed by Foundation Books, 2006. - 392 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references. "Hermann Kulke: a bibliography"--P. [381]-390.

PART I
WAYS OF QUESTIONING: HISTORIANS AND HISTORIOGRAPHY
1. Hermann Kulke's Contribution to the Study of
Indian History and Culture
MARTIN BRANDTNER and SHISHIR KUMAR PANDA 11
2. Archaeology of Orissa: A Historiographic Study
KISHOR K. BASA 23
3. Ways of Seeing: History and Historiography
of the State in Early India
BHAIRABI PRASAD SAHU 63
4. The Horse in Indian History
Dietmar Rothermund 83
PART II
ISSUES IN SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST ASIAN HISTORY
5. Kharavela and the Connected Problems
SNIGDHA TRIPATHY 91
6. The Date Formula in Early Ceylonese Inscriptions
HARRY FALK 117
7. Indian Tradition and Time
ALOKA PARASHER-SEN 129
8. On Board the Hermapollon:
Transporting Gangetic Nard from Muziris
RANABIR CHAKRAVARTI 147
9. A Theatre of Broken Dreams
VidiSa in the Days of Gupta Hegemony
HANS BAKKER 165
10. Early Medieval Orissa: The Data and the Debate
UPINDER SINGH 189
11. Rabindranath Tagore in Myanmar and His Perception
of Southeast Asia-India Relations
SWAPNA BHATTACHARYA 213
PART III
POLITICS OF IDENTITY AND CULTURE
12. The Oriya Movement and Singhbhum
NIVEDITA MOHANTY 233
13. Blurred Boundaries: Religion and Politics in Orissa
ISHITA BANERJEE-DUBE 263
14. Problematizing Heritage: Region, Religion
and the Making of Cultural Identity
YAAMINEY MUBAYI 279
15. Mapping the Mahatma: Literary Tracts and
Rumours in Late Colonial Orissa
CHANDI PRASAD NANDA 291
16. Decolonised Orissa: Issues and Problems
BISWAMOY PATI 303
17. The Pure Spring: A Cosmogram at Khallikot
JOANNA WILLIAMS 331
18. Kondh Classification and Mythology in
Macpherson's 'Account'
GEORG PFEFFER 347
19. Some Remarks on the Vdmadeva Samhita:
A Saivite Version of the Pi5j Manuals
of Lord Jagann5tha
G. C. TRIPATHI 365


Contributed articles predominantly on historiography and historians of India and area study of Orissa historical related topics.

8173046794

Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office Rs875.00

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Historians--India.


India--Historiography.
Odisha (India)--History.

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