Readings in Early Indian History
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2013Description: x, 492 p. : map ; 22 cmISBN: 9780198083764 (pbk.); 0198083769 (pbk.)Subject(s): Civilizational Beginning -- History -- India | India -- HistoryDDC classification: 934Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 934 THA/R (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P41196 |
Essays; previously published.
I. Historiography --
1. Decolonizing the Past --
2. The Contribution of D.D. Kosambi to Indology --
3. Society and Historical Consciousness: The Itihasa-purana Tradition --
II. Economy and Society --
4. Society in Ancient India: The Formative Period --
5. Lineage Society --
6. The Evolution of the State in the Ganga Valley in the Mid-first Millennium BC --
7. Black Gold: South Asia and the Roman Maritime Trade --
III. Changing Political Formations --
8. The Mauryan Empire in Early India --
9. Society and Economic Activity in the Late First Millennium BC --
10. Text and Context: Megasthenes and the Seven Castes --
11. Asoka: A Retrospective --
IV. Religion, Philosophy, and Society --
12. Sacrifice, Surplus, and the Soul --
13. The Householder and the Renouncer in the Brahmanical and Buddhist Traditions --
14. Patronage and the Community --
V. Towards Further Change --
15. Sakuntala: Histories of a Narrative --
16. Somanatha: Narratives of a History.
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