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| history and beyond romila thapar: History and Beyond Romila Thapar, 2000 This volume consists of four of Dr Thapar's published books. The author addresses historical questions surrounding Indian history from a multiple perspective, exploring them in their varying manifestations. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: From the Origins to AD 1300 Romila Thapar, 2004-02 This new book represents a complete rewriting by the author of her A History of India, vol. 1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 542-544) and index. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: A History of India Romila Thapar, Thomas George Percival Spear, 1965 This Classic Introduction To India'S Early History Covers The Era Of The Ascendance Of Aryan Culture, Circa 1000 Bc, To The Coming Of The Mughals In Ad 1526 And The Arrival Of The First European Trading Companies. It Gives A Brilliant Overview Of How India'S Social And Economic Structure Developed, While Delineating The Principle Political And Dynastic Events. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: The Past Before Us Romila Thapar, 2013-11-04 The claim that India uniquely lacks historical writing distracts us from a more pertinent question: how to recognize the historical sense of societies whose past is recorded in ways very different from European conventions. Romila Thapar, distinguished scholar of ancient India, provides a panoramic survey of historical traditions in North India. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: The Penguin History of Early India Romila Thapar, 2015-06-01 WINNER OF THE KLUGE PRIZE FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT 2008 Early India—a complete rewrite of Romila Thapar’s A History of India (Volume 1)—brings to life thousands of years of India’s precolonial history: its prehistoric beginnings; the great cities of the Indus civilization; the emergence of mighty dynasties such as the Mauryas, Guptas and Cholas; the teachings of the Buddha; the creation of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana; and the evolution of regional cultures. In exploring subjects as diverse as marriage, class, art, erotica and astronomy, Thapar provides an incomparably vivid and nuanced picture of India, creating a rich mosaic of diverse kingdoms, landscapes, languages and beliefs. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: From Lineage to State Romila Thapar, 1999-11-01 This book is a concise collection of lectures which discuss the nature of early Indian society during the mid-first millennium BC and relate it to the ancient Indian historical tradition in its earliest forms. It also looks at the particular character of social formations, their genesis, and continuity as part of the later Indian social landscape. Examining the social and political formulations of the period, this volume analyses the transformation of lineage-based societies into state formulations. It considers the migration and arrival of the monarchies in the middle Ganga valley, where the evolution of these societies resulted in the formation of a state. It provides insights into environmental influences on settlements, the particularities of caste, the role of rituals, and the interaction of ideology with these changes. The volume presents an account of the interplay of a range of variables in state formation. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: Which of Us are Aryans? Romila Thapar, 2019 The question of which of us is Aryan is one of the most contentious in India today. In this eye-opening book, scholars and experts critically examine the Aryan issue by analysing history, genetics, early Vedic scriptures, archaeology and linguistics to test and debunk various hypotheses, myths, facts and theories that are currently in vogue. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: Indian Tales Romila Thapar, 2000-10-14 The 16 stories in this collection of Indian heroes and heroines, their adventures, misfortunes and triumphs, of gods and demons and of animals, have been told to generations of children over the years. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: History and the Present Partha Chatterjee, Anjan Ghosh, 2006 The essays in this volume bring together historians and anthropologists to reflect on the place of history within present-day conditions. The central focus here is on aspects of the popular, on the ways in which the popular relates to the scientific, the professional, the aesthetic, the religious, the legal and the political. These essays represent a critique of the disciplinary practices of history. They examine the historian's practices and assumptions, being mainly concerned with finding a set of practices of history-writing that are both truthful and ethical. They are united by the desire to find a way out of the self-constructed cage of scientific history that has made historians wary of the popular. In his introduction, Partha Chatterjee spells out some of the requirements for this new analysis of the popular. He stresses the fact that in contemporary industrializing societies the popular should not be taken to be a homogeneous mass. On the contrary, he states, an awareness of the variety and innovativeness of the contemporary popular could rejuvenate academic historiography. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: The Past as Present Romila Thapar, 2019-09-15 Pt. I. History and the public. 1. Interpretations of early Indian history ; Historical perspectives of nation-building ; 3. Of histories and identities ; 4. In defence of history ; 5. Writing history textbooks: a memoir ; 6. Glimpses of a possible history from below: early India -- pt. II. Concerning religion and history. 7. Communalism: a historical perspective ; 8. Religion and the secularizing of Indian society ; 9. Syndicated Hinduism -- pt. III. Debates. 10. Which of us are Aryans ; 11. Dating the epics ; 12. The epic of the Bharatas ; 13. The Ramayana syndrome ; 14. In defence of the variant ; 15. Historical memory without history ; 16. The many narratives of Somanatha -- pt. IV. Our women-then and now. 17. Women in the Indian past ; 18. Becoming a Sati - the problematic widow ; 19. Rape within a cycle of violence. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: Questioning Paradigms Constructing Histories Kumkum Roy, Naina Dayal, 2019 |
| history and beyond romila thapar: Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas Romila Thapar, 1997 First published by the Clarendon Press in 1961, this authoritative work is based largely on the edicts of Asoka, whose policies are analysed against the background of Mauryan civilization during the third and fourth centuries BC. This is a thoroughly revised edition, with a substantial new afterword by the author, a revised bibliography and index, and a map showing new archaeological sites. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: Elephants and Kings Thomas R. Trautmann, 2015-08-03 Retreat and persistence of elephants -- Elephants and Indian kingship -- War elephants -- Structures of use: caturaga, vihana, vyha -- Elephant knowledge -- The spread of the war elephant -- North India, South India, Sri Lanka -- The Near East, North Africa, Europe -- Southeast Asia -- After the war elephant -- Drawing the balance, looking ahead |
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| history and beyond romila thapar: Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World Kurt A. Raaflaub, 2013-11-08 Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World presents a cross-cultural comparison of the ways in which ancient civilizations thought about the past and recorded their own histories. Written by an international group of scholars working in many disciplines Truly cross-cultural, covering historical thinking and writing in ancient or early cultures across in East, South, and West Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Americas Includes historiography shaped by religious perspectives, including Judaism, early Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism |
| history and beyond romila thapar: Ancient Indian Social History Romila Thapar, 1978 A collection of papers that interprets afresh, known facts about the early period of Indian history up to the end of the first millennium AD. The papers discuss several associated themes such as society and religion, social classification and mobility and the study of regional history. A useful reference book for postgraduate students of History. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: Talking History Romila Thapar, 2017 This work is an interview of Romila Thapar, one of the most prominent historians from India. She discusses her life and career, as well as important concepts and issues in the discipline of history. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: Indian Cultures As Heritage Romila Thapar, 2021-09-15 One of India's preeminent historians examines the role of history in contemporary society. Every society has its cultures: patterns of how people live and express themselves and how they value objects and thoughts. Recently, there has been considerable debate about what constitutes Indian culture and heritage and about how much diversity those categories ought to contain. Romila Thapar begins by explaining how definitions of culture have changed over the past three centuries. She suggests that cultures can be defined as a shared understanding of selected objects and thoughts from the past, but this understanding is often stripped of its historical context. Thapar touches on a few of these illuminating contexts, such as social discrimination, the role of women, and attitudes toward science and knowledge. This thought-provoking book is sure to spark productive debate about some current shibboleths in India's culture. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: India: The Ancient Past Burjor Avari, 2016-07-01 India: The Ancient Past provides a clear and systematic introduction to the cultural, political, economic, social and geographical history of ancient India from the time of the pre-Harappan culture nine thousand years ago up until the beginning of the second millennium of the Common Era. The book engages with methodological and controversial issues by examining key themes such as the Indus-Sarasvati civilization, the Aryan controversy, the development of Vedic and heterodox religions, and the political economy and social life of ancient Indian kingdoms. This fully revised and updated second edition includes: Three new chapters examining the differences and commonalities between the north and south of India; Extended discussion on contested issues, such as the origins of the Aryans and the role of feudalism in ancient India; New source excerpts to introduce students to the most significant works in the historiography of India, and questions for discussion; Study guides, including a list of key issues, suggested readings and a selection of internet sources for each chapter; Specially designed maps to illustrate different time periods and geographical regions This richly illustrated guide provides a fascinating account of the early development of Indian culture and civilization that will appeal to all students of Indian history. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: Communalism and the Writing of Indian History Romila Thapar, Harbans Mukhia, Bipan Chandra, 1969 Revised version of papers presented at a seminar organised by All India Radio in October 1968. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: Imagined Religious Communities? Romila Thapar, 2005* |
| history and beyond romila thapar: Sakuntala Romila Thapar, 2011 The figure of Sakuntala appears in many forms throughout South Asian literature, most famously in the Mahabharata and in Kalidisa's fourth-century Sanskrit play, Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection. In these two texts, Sakuntala undergoes a critical transformation, relinquishing her assertiveness and autonomy to become the quintessentially submissive woman, revealing much about the performance of Hindu femininity that would come to dominate South Asian culture. Through a careful analysis of sections from Sakuntala and their various iterations in different contexts, Romila Thapar explores the interactions between literature and history, culture and gender, that frame the development of this canonical figure, as well as a distinct conception of female identity. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: History as Wonder Marnie Hughes-Warrington, 2018-11-02 History and Wonder is a refreshing new take on the idea of history that tracks the entanglement of history and philosophy over time through the key idea of wonder. From Ancient Greek histories and wonder works, to Islamic curiosities and Chinese strange histories, through to European historical cabinets of curiosity and on to histories that grapple with the horrors of the Holocaust, Marnie Hughes-Warrington unpacks the ways in which historians throughout the ages have tried to make sense of the world, and to change it. This book considers histories and historians across time and space, including the Ancient Greek historian Polybius, the medieval texts by historians such as Bede in England and Ibn Khaldun in Islamic Historiography, and the more recent works by Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray and Ranajit Guha among others. It explores the different ways in which historians have called upon wonder to cross boundaries between the past and the present, the universal and the particular, the old and the new, and the ordinary and the extraordinary. Promising to both delight and unsettle, it shows how wonder works as the beginning of historiography. Accessible, engaging and wide-ranging, History as Wonder provides an original addition to the field of historiography that is ideal for those both new to and familiar with the study of history. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: The Hindus Wendy Doniger, 2009 An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions, The Hindus elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds. The Hindus brings a fascinating multiplicity of actors and stories to the stage to show how brilliant and creative thinkers have kept Hinduism alive in ways that other scholars have not fully explored. In this unique and authoritative account, debates about Hindu traditions become platforms to consider history as a whole. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: Revisiting The History of India & Beyond Shri Sagar Simlandy, Shri Keshab Chandra Ghosh, “Revisiting History of India & Beyond” have highlighted all the relevant issues of India's history and culture is dynamic, spanning back to the beginning of human civilization. It began with a mysterious culture along the Indus River and in farming communities in the southern lands of India. The history of India is punctuated by constant integration of migrating people with the diverse cultures that surround India. Available evidence suggests that the use of iron, copper and other metals was widely prevalent in the Indian sub-continent at a fairly early period, which is indicative of the progress that this part of the world had made by the end of the fourth millennium BC, India had emerged as a region of highly developed civilization. We hope that this book will be able to satisfy the general reader of History. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: Trade in Early India Ranabir Chakravarti, 2004-12-16 This collection of fifteen essays and extracts, covering a chronological span from the third millennium BC to c AD 1300 and written by leading historians of early India, highlight the changing perspectives, methods, and approaches to the study of early Indian trade. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: Demolishing Myths Or Mosques and Temples? Sunil Kumar, 2008 History, it is said, cannot be studied without reflecting on the practice of historians who narrate it. The articles in this volume introduce readers to the writings of four scholars who study the subject of temple desecration in interesting and different ways. They focus on the ways in which historians study the political culture, events, historical narratives, material remains and aesthetic norms of a time very distant from us. Through their focus on the theme of temple desecration, a subject of considerable import in political rhetoric today, these essays also underline how easily history can be subverted to serve narrow, cynical ends. At a time when history has become so important in the making of the nation s identity, the articles in this book invite the readers to pause and reflect on the craft of history, the exciting and engaging conclusions to which it can lead and the worrying ends to which it can also be nudged. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: Religious Movements in South Asia, 600-1800 David N. Lorenzen, 2005 This volume brings together eleven key essays that debate how the religious and worldly aims of religious movements in pre-modern South Asia have been linked and how their ideologies, social bases, and organizational structures both continued and changed over the course of time. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: Western Historical Thinking Jörn Rüsen, 2002-06-01 What is history – a question historians have been asking themselves time and again. Does history as an academic discipline, as it has evolved in the West over the centuries, represent a specific mode of historical thinking that can bedefined in contrast to other forms of historical consciousness? In this volume, Peter Burke, a prominent Western historian, offers ten hypotheses that attempt to constitute specifically Western Historical Thinking. Scholars from Asia and Africa comment on his position in the light of their own ideas of the sense and meaning of historical thinking. The volume is rounded off by Peter Burke's comments on the questions and issues raised by the authors and his suggestions for the way forward towards a common ground for intercultural communication. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: India's Princely States Waltraud Ernst, Biswamoy Pati, 2007-10-18 This is an invaluable collection for scholars working on the princely states of India due to abundance of sources consulted and broad coverage of the subject It includes contributions by authors from Europe/UK, India and North America. Both editors are highly regarded and well reputed scholars. Most contributors are well known researchers in their field It will be of interest to scholarly community in Europe/UK, North America, Asia and Australia where Indian History and Politics is taught |
| history and beyond romila thapar: Cultural Transaction and Early India Romila Thapar, 1994 The two lectures within this volume discuss, first, the way in which a tradition is created, and, second, the meaning of `patronage'. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: Narratives and the Making of History Romila Thapar, 2000 These two essays explore some facets of the interface between narrative and history. The first explores the versions of the story of Sakuntala. The second juxtaposes the data on the raid of Mahmuud of Ghazni on the temple of Somanatha. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: The Public Intellectual in India Romila Thapar, 2015 |
| history and beyond romila thapar: Ashoka in Ancient India Nayanjot Lahiri, 2015-08-05 In the third century BCE Ashoka ruled in South Asia and Afghanistan, and came to be seen as the ideal Buddhist king. Disentangling the threads of Ashoka’s life from the knot of legend that surrounds it, Nayanjot Lahiri presents a vivid biography of an emperor whose legacy extends far beyond the bounds of his lifetime and dominion. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: Early Indian History and Beyond , 2019 |
| history and beyond romila thapar: Theory as History Jairus Banaji, 2010-03-22 Winner of the 2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize. The essays collected here straddle four decades of work in both historiography and Marxist theory, combining source-based historical work in a wide range of languages with sophisticated discussion of Marx's categories. Key themes include the distinctions that are crucial to restoring complexity to the Marxist notion of a 'mode of production'; the emergence of medieval relations of production; the origins of capitalism; the dichotomy between free and unfree labour; and essays in agrarian history that range widely from Byzantine Egypt to 19th-century colonialism. The essays demonstrate the importance of reintegrating theory with history and of bringing history back into historical materialism. An introductory chapter ties the collection together and shows how historical materialists can develop an alternative to Marx's 'Asiatic mode of production'. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: The Past and Prejudice Romila Thapar, 2000 |
| history and beyond romila thapar: The ‘Early Medieval’ Origins of India Manu V. Devadevan, 2020-12-03 This radical reinterpretation of Indian history traces the origins of India's institutions, ideas and identities to the 'early medieval' period. |
| history and beyond romila thapar: Tradition, Dissent and Ideology Radha Champakalakshmi, Sarvepalli Gopal, 2000-08-15 This collection of essays by eminent historians covers a time span from the Vedic age to the Nehruvian era of Indian history and ranges across cultural regions from Mesopotamia to Sri Lanka. |
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