Many great Indian stories have been told to us over the years and we never get tired of hearing them. Here is a book that talks about the adventures and misfortunes of gods and demons. Readers will also find stories of animals and the lives of the village folk in India. All of them are stories of wisdom with morals. Young readers will enjoy this collection of stories that have both happy and sad endings.

Indian Tales

Children's Books

Romila, Thapar

Science Fiction & Fantasy

India Puffin

The Penguin History Of Early India From The Origins To AD 1300 gives its readers an exhaustive idea about the history of India, from the time of its formation, through its gradual coalition, to its structure in AD 1300. The account is not a chronological narration of the events that took place to form India, but the narration of the story of India. Romila Thapar s version of the history of India is composed of many stories of the different parts of India which gradually came together to form one great country. Romila Thapar s The Penguin History Of Early India From The Origins To AD 1300 takes its readers on a journey. The journey begins from the prehistoric era of the Indus Valley Civilization and other such ancient civilizations. It continues through to the emergence of the great empires of the Mauryas, Cholas, and the Guptas. It also talks about the creation of the great epics of The Ramayana and The Mahabharata, and the lives of great scholars and saints who had a huge impact on the life of India and its people such as Gautam Buddha and King Ashoka. The narration of history ends with the year AD 1300, with the reign of Rajendra III, the last Chola King. The Penguin History Of Early India From The Origins To AD 1300 aims at showing the connections between the social, political, economic and religious aspects of each period. The focus is on tracing the continuities in the history of Early India. Diverse subjects such as religion, art, erotica, language, society are analyzed in conjunction with each other. This updated edition contains added research on the history of India based on new excavation data, new methods of interpretation of history and changes in academic understanding of the discipline.

The Penguin History of Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300

History

Asia

India Penguin

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Somanatha: The Many Voices of a History [Paperback] [Jan 01, 1625] ROMILA THAPAR

Penguin books.India

This is a reissue, with corrections, in Oxford India Paperbacks, of two lectures by the eminent historian Romila Thapar. Professor Thapar argues that traditions which revolve around ideas are not handed down unchanged from generation to generation, but are often evolved in recent times, drawing on the perceived requirement of such times. Patronage is seen as a form of exchange between patron and creator, in the course of which the object or institution thus created takes on an entity of its own and performs a social role. Several examples from history serve as illustrations in both lectures.

Narratives and the Making of History: Two Lectures

Oxford University Press,India

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History and Beyond

OUP India

In 1026, Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni raided the Hindu temple of Somanatha (Somnath in textbooks of the colonial period). The story of the raid has reverberated in Indian history, but largely during the raj. It was first depicted as a trauma for the Hindu population not in India, but in the House of Commons. The triumphalist accounts of the event in Turko-Persian chronicles became the main source for most eighteenth-century historians. It suited everyone and helped the British to divide and rule a multi-millioned subcontinent.In her new book, Romila Thapar, the doyenne of Indian historians, reconstructs what took place by studying other sources, including local Sanskrit inscriptions, biographies of kings and merchants of the period, court epics and popular narratives that have survived. The result is astounding and undermines the traditional version of what took place. These findings also contest the current Hindu religious nationalism that constantly utilises the conventional version of this history.

Somanatha : The Many Voices of a History

Penguin??Books

Drawing on textual and archaeological sources, most of the essays in this edition are on the early history of India upto the end of the first millennium A.D., suggesting some fresh interpretations of the data. This revised edition has four new essays. The tradition of historical writing that earlier received little attention is now becoming a subject of interest in relation to pre-modern India. The cliche that Indian civilization lacked a sense of history is open to question and is discussed more fully in one of these essays. The functions of institutions associated with the presentation of history, such as museums are considered in another essay. A further discussion relates to the need for the historian to be aware of the political exploitation of history. The final essay reminds us of the debate generated by such a threat in recent years. This seminal work by one of India s most eminent historians will be of invaluable use to scholars interested in the study of ancient societies, tradition and culture in the context of social formations, and broadly history.

Ancient Indian Social History

Orient Blackswan

The Past Before Us - Historical Traditions of Early North India [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2014] Romila Thapar

Communalisation of education: The assault on history : press reportagé, editorials, and articles

Education & Teaching

Bipin Chandra

Irfan Habib

R.S. Sharma

Schools & Teaching

Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust

Many popularly held views about the past need to be critically enquired into before they can be taken as historical. For instance, what was the aftermath of the raid on the Somanatha temple? Which of us is Aryan or Dravidian? Why is it important for Indian society to be secular? When did communalism as an ideology gain a foothold in the country? How and when did our patriarchal mindset begin to support a culture of violence against women? Why are the fundamentalists so keen to rewrite history textbooks? The answers to these and similar questions have been disputed and argued about ever since they were first posed. Distinguished historian Romila Thapar has investigated, analyzed and interpreted the history that underlies such questions throughout her career; now, in this book, through a series of incisive essays she argues that it is of critical importance for the past to be carefully and rigorously explained, if the legitimacy of our present, wherever it derives from the past, is to be portrayed as accurately as possible. This is especially pertinent given the attempts by unscrupulous politicians, religious fundamentalists and their ilk to try and misrepresent and wilfully manipulate the past in order to serve their present-day agendas. An essential and necessary book at a time when sectarianism, bogus nationalism and the muddying of historical facts are increasingly becoming a feature of our public, private and intellectual lives.

The Past as Present: Forging Contemporary Identities Through History

Literature & Fiction

Aleph Book Company

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