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This is an attempt to define Indian society in the crucial period of the mid-first millennium BC and in the seminal area of the Ganges Valley. It examines the major change from a lineage-based society to the estab read more
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Professor Thapar argues the importance of understanding and positioning various well-established perspectives on the Indian past in order to arrive at an informed understanding of contemporary situations - such as read more
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Romila Thapar examines the link between time and history through the use of cyclic and linear concepts of time. While the former occurs in a cosmological context, the latter of found in familiar historical forms. read more
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These two lectures were given as the D.D. Kosambi Memoral Lectures at Bombay University in 1999. They are an exploration of some facets of the interface between narrative and history.
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Cultural Pasts collects essays on a range of subjects in early Indian history. Its focus is on historiography and the changing dimensions of social and cultural history. The essays are divided into nine thematic g read more
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About the Book: Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas
The Mauryan period witnessed the rise of the first subcontinental empire which required administration appropriate to a changing political economy, communication adequate to a subc read more
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Drawing on textual and archaeological sources, most of the essays in this edition are on the early history of India upto the end of the first millennium A.D., suggestin read more
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About the Book: Exotic Aliens: The Lion and The Cheetah In India
Exotic Aliens is a bold, original and compelling work about the origins of lions and cheetahs in India that could turn field biology on its head. read more
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In 1026, Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni raided the Hindu temple of Somanatha (Somnath in textbooks of the colonial period). The story of the raid has reverberated in Indian history, but largely during the raj. It was first depicted as a trauma for the Hindu p read more
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