Cultural Pasts: Essays in Early Indian History
Romila Thapar
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 groups: historiography, both current and from earlier periods; social and cultural transactions; archaeology and history; pre-Mauryan and Mauryan India; forms of exchange; the society of the heroes in the epics and the later tradition of venerating the hero; genealogies and origin myths as historical sources; the social context of the renouncer; and the past in the present--the use of the early past in current ideologies.
年:
2000
版本:
1
出版商:
Oxford University Press
語言:
english
頁數:
1156
ISBN 10:
0195640500
ISBN 13:
9780195640502
文件:
PDF, 170.40 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2000