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| the history of india vol 2 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. |
| the history of india vol 2 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. |
| the history of india vol 2 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. |
| the history of india vol 2 romila thapar: Early Indian History Romila Thapar, 2013-08-08 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. |
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| the history of india vol 2 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. |
| the history of india vol 2 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. |
| the history of india vol 2 romila thapar: A Social History of Early India Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya, 2009 Contributed seminar papers. |
| the history of india vol 2 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. |
| the history of india vol 2 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. |
| the history of india vol 2 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. |
| the history of india vol 2 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. |
| the history of india vol 2 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. |
| the history of india vol 2 romila thapar: India, a Modern History Thomas George Percival Spear, 1961 Survey of India's transformation into a modern nation, emphasizing pertinent phases of India's ancient history and the impact of the West. |
| the history of india vol 2 romila thapar: Expounding the Mathematical Seed. Vol. 2: The Supplements Agathe Keller, 2007-08-02 In the 5th century, the Indian mathematician Aryabhata wrote a small but famous work on astronomy in 118 verses called the Aryabhatiya. Its second chapter gives a summary of Hindu mathematics up to that point, and 200 years later, the Indian astronomer Bhaskara glossed that chapter. Volume 1 of this work was an English translation of Bhaskara’s commentary, and this volume contains explanations for each verse commentary translated in volume 1. |
| the history of india vol 2 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. |
| the history of india vol 2 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. |
| the history of india vol 2 romila thapar: India's Agony Over Religion Gerald James Larson, 1995-02-16 Presents the contemporary religious crisis in India, providing historical perspective and focusing on the crises in Punjab, Kashmir, and Ayodhya. |
| the history of india vol 2 romila thapar: History from Loss Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Daniel Woolf, 2023-05-31 History from Loss challenges the common thought that history is written by the winners and explores how history-makers in different times and places across the globe have written histories from loss, even when this has come at the threat to their own safety. A distinguished group of historians from around the globe offer an introduction to different history-makers’ lives and ideas, and important extracts from their works which highlight various meanings of loss: from physical ailments to social ostracism, exile to imprisonment, and from dispossession to potential execution. Throughout the volume consideration of the information bubbles of different times and places helps to show how information has been weaponized to cause harm. In this way, the text helps to put current debates about the biases and weaponization of platforms such as social media into global and historical perspectives. In combination, the chapters build a picture of history from loss which is global, sustained, and anything but a simple mirror of history made by victors. The volume also includes an Introduction and Afterword, which draw out the key meanings of history from loss and which offer ideas for further exploration. History from Loss provides an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and general readers who wish to put current debates on bias, the politicization of history, and threats to history-makers into global and historical perspectives. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. |
| the history of india vol 2 romila thapar: Environmental History of Early India Dr Nandini Sinha Kapur, 2011-01-20 This reader provides a multilayered analysis of different aspects of history, politics, economy and its interface with environment and ecology in early India. It focuses on forests, deforestation, tribes and states; land grants, settlements, and rural landscape; water resources, irrigation, and agricultural expansion; ecology in literature and religion; and pastoralism, ecology, and society. |
| the history of india vol 2 romila thapar: Imagined Religious Communities? Romila Thapar, 2005* |
| the history of india vol 2 romila thapar: Recent Perspectives of Early Indian History Romila Thapar, 1995 Contributed articles. |
| the history of india vol 2 romila thapar: Migrations in Medieval and Early Colonial India Vijaya Ramaswamy, 2017-07-05 This book looks at movements of communities which formed the lower and middle rungs of society in medieval and early colonial India. It presents migration, mobility and memories from a specifically Indian perspective, breaking away from previous Eurocentric studies. The essays in the volume focus on labour, peasant and craft migrations, and in fleshing out the causes and trajectories taken by these communities, they speak to each other by addressing similar issues as well as documenting varying responses to analogous situations.A fascinating history of migrations ofpeople from below the volume adopts a trans-disciplinary approach and uses inscriptions, official records, and literary texts along with community narratives and folk tradition. This will be of great interest to scholars and students of migration and diaspora studies, medieval and modern South Asian history, social anthropology and subaltern studies. |
| the history of india vol 2 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. |
| the history of india vol 2 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. |
| the history of india vol 2 romila thapar: The Artists of Nathadwara Tryna Lyons, 2004 A richly illustrated look at the lives and careers of North Indian artists |
| the history of india vol 2 romila thapar: Twilight of the Mughals Percival Spear, 1991-06-01 |
| the history of india vol 2 romila thapar: Aryans and British India Thomas R. Trautmann, 2023-07-28 Aryan, a word that today evokes images of racial hatred and atrocity, was first used by Europeans to suggest bonds of kinship, as Thomas Trautmann shows in his far-reaching history of British Orientalism and the ethnology of India. When the historical relationship uniting Sanskrit with the languages of Europe was discovered, it seemed clear that Indians and Britons belonged to the same family. Thus the Indo-European or Aryan idea, based on the principle of linguistic kinship, dominated British ethnological inquiry. In the nineteenth century, however, an emergent biological race science attacked the authority of the Orientalists. The spectacle of a dark-skinned people who were evidently civilized challenged Victorian ideas, and race science responded to the enigma of India by redefining the Aryan concept in narrowly white racial terms. By the end of the nineteenth century, race science and Orientalism reached a deep and lasting consensus in regard to India, which Trautmann calls the racial theory of Indian civilization, and which he undermines with his powerful analysis of colonial ethnology in India. His work of reassessing British Orientalism and the Aryan idea will be of great interest to historians, anthropologists, and cultural critics. Aryan, a word that today evokes images of racial hatred and atrocity, was first used by Europeans to suggest bonds of kinship, as Thomas Trautmann shows in his far-reaching history of British Orientalism and the ethnology of India. When the historical r |
| the history of india vol 2 romila thapar: India Andrew Robinson, 2025-02-27 India has had many histories. To pilgrims from ancient China, India was the birthplace of the Buddha; to Alexander the Great it was a land of clever naked philosophers and indomitable, elephantine armies. At the height of the Mughal empire, India boasted nearly a quarter of the world economy, and even under colonial rule it was the jewel in the crown of the British Empire. Today it is the resurgent home to one sixth of the global population. Andrew Robinson incisively distils Indias many incarnations, from the remarkably advanced cities of the early Indus Valley to the worlds largest democracy. Anyone curious about its past, present or future will find this a fascinating introduction. |
| the history of india vol 2 romila thapar: India Unveiled Divyam Agarwal, 2025-03-01 India Unveiled: Chronicles from Dawn to Independence takes you on a journey through India’s rich and complex history, from its ancient roots to the struggles that led to independence. This book offers an insightful look at how a diverse and vibrant nation evolved over thousands of years. Explore the foundations of Indian culture, philosophy, and political systems, alongside its monumental contributions to science and mathematics. Learn about the rise and fall of great empires like the Mauryas, Guptas, and Mughals, and how their legacies shaped the nation. As the story progresses, experience the intense fight for independence, from early rebellions to the mass movements led by figures like Gandhi. The book highlights the regional struggles, the power of non-violent resistance, and the unsung heroes whose sacrifices helped carve the path to freedom. In the final chapters, *India Unveiled* delves into the challenges faced after independence, exploring the Partition, the creation of a democratic India, and its vision for a future rooted in unity and secularism. This book is for anyone interested in the heart of India’s history, its struggles, and its enduring legacy—a must-read for those seeking to understand the remarkable journey of a nation that continues to shape the world today. |
| the history of india vol 2 romila thapar: Early Medieval Indian Society (pb) Ram Sharan Sharma, R.S. Sharma, 2003 The book analyses the transition from the ancient to the medieval period in polity, economy, the caste system and culture. It examines the form of peasant protest and the reasons for their failure and infrequency. The author also examines the development of tantrism and the mentality that feudalism created. |
| the history of india vol 2 romila thapar: A History of Indian Buddhism Akira Hirakawa, 1993 This comprehensive and detailed survey of the first six centuries of Indian Buddhism sums up the results of a lifetime of research and reflection by one of Japan's most renowned scholars of Buddhism. |
| the history of india vol 2 romila thapar: Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures, Volume II Torsten Jost, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Milos Kosic, Astrid Schenka, 2023-04-07 This volume investigates performance cultures as rich and dynamic environments of knowledge practice through which distinctive epistemologies are continuously (re)generated, cultivated and celebrated. Epistemologies are dynamic formations of rules, tools and procedures not only for understanding but also for doing knowledges. This volume deals in particular with epistemological challenges posed by practices and processes of interweaving performance cultures. These challenges arise in artistic and academic contexts because of hierarchies between epistemologies. European colonialism worked determinedly, violently and often with devastating effects on instituting and sustaining a hegemony of modern Euro-American rules of knowing in many parts of the world. Therefore, Interweaving Epistemologies critically interrogates the (im)possibilities of interweaving epistemologies in artistic and academic contexts today. Writing from diverse geographical locations and knowledge cultures, the book’s contributors—philosophers and political scientists as well as practitioners and scholars of theater, performance and dance—investigate prevailing forms of epistemic ignorance and violence. They introduce key concepts and theories that enable critique of unequal power relations between epistemologies. Moreover, contributions explore historical cases of interweaving epistemologies and examine innovative present-day methods of working across and through epistemological divides in nonhegemonic, sustainable, creative and critical ways. Ideal for practitioners, students and researchers of theater, performance and dance, Interweaving Epistemologies emphasizes the urgent need to acknowledge, study and promote epistemological plurality and diversity in practices of performance-making as well as in scholarship on theater and performance around the globe today. |
| the history of india vol 2 romila thapar: Freedom Donald W. Treadgold, 1990-11 A worldwide trend toward democracy is surely one of the more remarkable phenomena of our times, even if the movement twoard that goal may often be haphazard and elusive. Past history will provide a healthy skepticism concerning the likelihood of democracy being reached in the near future in many parts of the world, as well as a preparedness for the possibility that many countries apparently close to the institutional divide are going to slip back rather than cross it soon. Nevertheless, the past 2600 years, or even 5000, yield the reassuring message that during that long period freedom has improved its extent significantly, with respect both to geographical breadth and institutional depth. This book is the first to attempt to describe the history of the growth of freedom on a world scale within one single set of covers. It sets out not to redefine freedom nor to discvoer freedom where no one else has, nor to argue that freedom is the proud possession of one country or tradition or people. Its purpose instead is to show how certain elements of free society made their appearance in an amazing variety of places, from ancient Sumeria and China to medieval Japan, modern Czechoslovakia and Costa Rica, in areas both inside and outside of the Western European and North American tradition that will probably be familiar to most readers of the English language edition of this book. The whole story, with its fits and starts, triumphs and tragedies, deserves the thoughtful reflection of everyone who in the wish to establish and protect freedom would avoid needless disappointment and despair and desires to act intelligently to attain the attainable. But even for the quietest, the person who has no faith in human action to improve man's lot, the story is worth pondering, for along with failure and misery it holds much that is noble and uplifting, tells of much gain for humanity through patient suffering and self-sacrifice, and catches a vision of liberty for all in the present an dpossible future that was inconceivable at the dawn of history. |
| the history of india vol 2 romila thapar: An Atlas and Survey of South Asian History Karl J. Schmidt, 2015-05-20 This historical atlas is devoted primarily to India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, while also covering Napal, Bhutan and Ceylon/Sri Lanka. The maps are accompanied by text which illuminates recent political, economic, social and cultural developments. |
| the history of india vol 2 romila thapar: Studying Early India Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya, 2006 A focal study of the methodological changes that confront historians of pre-colonial India. |
| the history of india vol 2 romila thapar: The World Hunt John F. Richards, 2014-05-10 Presented here is the final and most coherent section of a sweeping classic work in environmental history, The Unending Frontier. The World Hunt focuses on the commercial hunting of wildlife and its profound global impact on the environment and the early modern world economy. Tracing the massive expansion of the European quest for animal products, The World Hunt explores the fur trade in North America and Russia, cod fishing in the North Atlantic, and whaling and sealing on the world’s oceans and coastlands. |
| the history of india vol 2 romila thapar: PATANJALI'S YOGA SUTRA Shyam Ranganathan, 2008-05-30 A contemporary interpretation of the foundational text for the practice of yoga. Patañjali’s Yoga Sutra (second century CE) is the basic text of one of the nine canonical schools of Indian philosophy. In it the legendary author lays down the blueprint for success in yoga; now practised the world over. Patañjali draws upon many ideas of his time; and the result is a unique work of Indian moral philosophy that has been the foundational text for the practice of yoga since. The Yoga Sutra sets out a sophisticated theory of moral psychology and perhaps the oldest theory of psychoanalysis. For Patañjali; present mental maladies are a function of subconscious tendencies formed in reaction to past experiences. He argues that people are not powerless against such forces and that they can radically alter their lives through yoga—a process of moral transformation and perfection; which brings the body and mind of a person in line with their true nature. Accompanying this illuminating translation is an extended introduction that explains the challenges of accurately translating Indian philosophical texts; locates the historical antecedents of Patañjali’s text and situates Patanjali’s philosophy within the history of scholastic Indian philosophy. |
| the history of india vol 2 romila thapar: A Silence in the City and Other Stories Marie Cruz Gabriel, |
| the history of india vol 2 romila thapar: Political Violence in Ancient India Upinder Singh, 2017-09-25 Gandhi and Nehru helped create a myth of nonviolence in ancient India that obscures a troubled, complex heritage: a long struggle to reconcile the ethics of nonviolence with the need to use violence to rule. Upinder Singh documents the tension between violence and nonviolence in ancient Indian political thought and practice, 600 BCE to 600 CE. |
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