Readings in Early Indian History
- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- x, 492 p. : map ; 22 cm
Essays; previously published.
I. Historiography -- 1. Decolonizing the Past -- 2. The Contribution of D.D. Kosambi to Indology -- 3. Society and Historical Consciousness: The Itihasa-purana Tradition -- II. Economy and Society -- 4. Society in Ancient India: The Formative Period -- 5. Lineage Society -- 6. The Evolution of the State in the Ganga Valley in the Mid-first Millennium BC -- 7. Black Gold: South Asia and the Roman Maritime Trade -- III. Changing Political Formations -- 8. The Mauryan Empire in Early India -- 9. Society and Economic Activity in the Late First Millennium BC -- 10. Text and Context: Megasthenes and the Seven Castes -- 11. Asoka: A Retrospective -- IV. Religion, Philosophy, and Society -- 12. Sacrifice, Surplus, and the Soul -- 13. The Householder and the Renouncer in the Brahmanical and Buddhist Traditions -- 14. Patronage and the Community -- V. Towards Further Change -- 15. Sakuntala: Histories of a Narrative -- 16. Somanatha: Narratives of a History.
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