Romila Thapar

The Historian and Her Craft

Collected Essays and Lectures (4 Volume Set)

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a set of four volumes aimed at bringing together the best research by Romila Thapar to showcase her academic contributions to the understanding of history and historiography in India. The four volumes will focus on bringing together all the lectures and papers on an area of her work-historiography, Mauryas and Mauryan India, Social and Cultural Transaction, and Religion and Society. Each volume also includes a detailed interview with the author and anassessment of her work by an expert in the field, who will introduce the essays in that volume.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 1580
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 163mm x 147mm
• Gewicht: 2722g
• ISBN-13: 9780199467150
• ISBN-10: 0199467153
• Artikelnr.: 49954644

Autorenporträt

Romila Thapar is Emerita Professor, Centre for Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Volume I - Ideology, Theory, and History
* Introduction to the Set - Romila Thapar
* Introduction to the Volume - Neeladri Bhattacharya
* Decolonising History
* 1. Ideology and the Interpretation of Early Indian History
* 2. Early India: An Overview
* 3. The Decolonization of History: Early India
* Marxism, Sociology and the writing of History
* 4. Durkheim and Weber on Theories of Society and Race Relating to
Pre-colonial India
* 5. The Contribution of D.D. Kosambi to Indology
* Writing the Region
* 6. Regional History: The Punjab
* 7. Regional History with Reference to the Konkan
* Secularism and the Writing of History
* 8. Imagined Religious Communities? Ancient History and the Modern
Search for a Hindu Identity
* 9. Secularism and History
* 10. The Historiography of the Concept of 'Aryan'
* 11. The Tyranny of Labels
* The Question of Historical Consciousness
* 12. Society and Historical Consciousness: The Itihasa-purana
Tradition
* 13. Was There Historical Writing in Early India?
* Narrative - An History
* 14. A Historical Perspective on the Story of Rama
* 15. Sakuntala: Histories of a Narrative
* 16. Somanatha: Narratives of a History
* Romila Thapar in conversation with Neeladri Bhattacharya
* Index
* Volume II - Pre-Mauryan and Mauryan India
* Introduction to the Volume - Kumkum Roy
* Starting Up
* 1. A Possible Identifi cation of Meluhha, Dilmun and Makan
* 2. Society in Ancient India: The Formative Period
* Archaelogy and Texts
* 3. The Rigveda: Encapsulating Social Change
* 4. The Archaeological Background to the Agnicayana Ritual
* 5. Archaeological Artifacts and Literary Data: An Attempt at
Co-relation
* State and Empire
* 6. The Evolution of the State in the Ganga Valley in the Mid-first
Millennium BC
* 7. The Early History of Mathura: Up to and Including the Mauryan
Period
* 8. Towards the Definition of an Empire: The Mauryan State
* 9. State Weaving-Shops of the Mauryan Period
* Inscriptions
* 10. Asoka and Buddhism as Reflected in the Asokan Edicts
* 11. Raya Asoko from Kanaganahalli: Some Thoughts
* 12. Literacy and Communication: Some Thoughts on the Inscriptions of
Asoka
* Beyond the Empire
* 13. Epigraphic Evidence and Some Indo-Hellenistic Contacts during the
Mauryan Period
* 14. Text and Context: Megasthenes and the Seven Castes
* 15. The Role of the Army in the Exercise of Power in Early India
* Romila Thapar in conversation with Kumkum Roy
* Index
* Volume III - Social and Cultural Transactions
* Introduction to the volume - Rajan Gurukkal
* Looking at Epics
* 1. The Historian and the Epic
* 2. Some Aspects of the Economic Data in the Mahabharata
* 3. Dana and Daksina as Forms of Exchange
* 4. The Ramayana: Theme and Variation
* The Hero
* 5. Death and the Hero
* 6. As Long as the Moon and the Sun Endure
* Genealogies and Claims to Status
* 7. Genealogical Patterns as Perceptions of the Past
* 8. Origin Myths and the Early Indian Historical Tradition
* 9. Clan, Caste and Origin Myths in Early India
* 10. The Mouse in the Ancestry
* India and Europe in Early Times
* 11. The Image of the Barbarian in Early India
* 12. Indian Views of Europe: Representations of the Yavanas in Early
Indian History
* 13. Black Gold: South Asia and the Roman Maritime Trade
* Romila Thapar in conversation with Rajan Gurukkal
* Index
* Volume IV - Religion and Society
* Introduction to the volume - Kunal Chakrabarti
* Exploring New Ideas
* 1. Sacrifice, Surplus, and the Soul
* 2. Ideology, Society and the Upani?ads
* 3. Ethics, Religion and Social Protest in the First Millennium BC in
Northern India
* 4. The Oral and the Written in Early India
* The Social Role of the Renouncer
* 5. Dissent and Protest in the Early Indian Tradition
* 6. Renunciation: The Making of a Counter-Culture?
* 7. The Householder and the Renouncer in the Brahmanical and Buddhist
Traditions
* 8. Millenarianism and Religion in Early India
* Inclusion and Exile
* 9. The Puranas: Heresy and the Vamsanucarita
* 10. Exile and the Kingdom: Some Thoughts on the 'Ramayana'
* 11. Perceiving the Forest: Early India
* Religion as an Aspect of Politics
* 12. Syndicated Hinduism
* Forms of Patronage-Old and New
* 13. Cultural Transaction and Early India: Tradition and Patronage
* 14. Patronage and the Community
* 15. The Museum and History
* 16. The Museum Experience
* Romila Thapar in conversation with Kunal Chakrabarti
* Index