Everyday lives, everyday histories: beyond the kings and Brahmans of 'ancient' India/
Chakravarti, Uma
Everyday lives, everyday histories: beyond the kings and Brahmans of 'ancient' India/ Uma Chakravarti - 2nd. ed. - New Delhi : Tulika Books, 2012. - x,328p. : 25cm.
Includes biographical references and index.
Representing Ancient India: Whatever happened to the Vedic Dasi?: Orientalism, nationalism and a script for the past -- Inventing Saffron history: a Celibate hero rescues and emasculated nation ---- Structures and Processes: Towards a historical sociology of stratification in ancient India: evidence from Buddhist sources -- Of Dasas and Karmakaras: Servile labour in ancient India -- In search of the peasant in early India: was the Gahapati a peasant producer? -- The social philosophy of Buddhism and the problem of inequality -- Conceptualizing Brahmanical patriarchy in early India: gender, caste, class and state -- Gender, caste and labour: ideological and material structure of widowhood ---- Reading the Past: Renouncer and householder in early Buddhism -- Women, Men and beasts: The Jataka as popular tradition -- The development of the Sita myth: a case study of women in myth and literature -- The making and unmaking of tradition: the Ramayana narrative in two moments -- Exploring a no-conflict zone: interest, emotion and family in early India -- The world of the Bhaktim in South Indian traditions: The body and beyond
9788189487959
India -- History -- To 324 B.C. -- Historiography.
India -- Social conditions -- To 1200.
India -- History -- 324 B.C.-1000 A.D. -- Historiography.
934 / CHA/E
Everyday lives, everyday histories: beyond the kings and Brahmans of 'ancient' India/ Uma Chakravarti - 2nd. ed. - New Delhi : Tulika Books, 2012. - x,328p. : 25cm.
Includes biographical references and index.
Representing Ancient India: Whatever happened to the Vedic Dasi?: Orientalism, nationalism and a script for the past -- Inventing Saffron history: a Celibate hero rescues and emasculated nation ---- Structures and Processes: Towards a historical sociology of stratification in ancient India: evidence from Buddhist sources -- Of Dasas and Karmakaras: Servile labour in ancient India -- In search of the peasant in early India: was the Gahapati a peasant producer? -- The social philosophy of Buddhism and the problem of inequality -- Conceptualizing Brahmanical patriarchy in early India: gender, caste, class and state -- Gender, caste and labour: ideological and material structure of widowhood ---- Reading the Past: Renouncer and householder in early Buddhism -- Women, Men and beasts: The Jataka as popular tradition -- The development of the Sita myth: a case study of women in myth and literature -- The making and unmaking of tradition: the Ramayana narrative in two moments -- Exploring a no-conflict zone: interest, emotion and family in early India -- The world of the Bhaktim in South Indian traditions: The body and beyond
9788189487959
India -- History -- To 324 B.C. -- Historiography.
India -- Social conditions -- To 1200.
India -- History -- 324 B.C.-1000 A.D. -- Historiography.
934 / CHA/E