Cultural Pasts

Cultural Pasts
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 1172
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ISBN-10 : 0195664876
ISBN-13 : 9780195664874
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Book Synopsis Cultural Pasts by : Romila Thapar

Download or read book Cultural Pasts written by Romila Thapar and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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