Romila Thapar

Readings in Early Indian History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This reader brings together essays on various aspects of ancient Indian history. It discusses historiography; society and economy; changing political formations; religion, philosophy and society; and the changes which paved way for new socio-economic and political formations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 145mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780198083764
• ISBN-10: 0198083769
• Artikelnr.: 36052588

Autorenporträt

Romila Thapar is Professor Emeritus at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She also holds the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South at the Library of Congress, and is Professorial Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. An Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, she has been Distinguished Visiting Professor at Cornell University.

Inhaltsangabe

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