A history of India upto 1300 AD introducing the beginnings of India's cultural dynamics

A History of India: Volume 1

History

Thapar, Romila

Asia

Penguin??Books

Covers the period from Mughal rule, through the years of British control, to the government of Nehru, with emphasis on the continuity of development from one era to the next.

History of India: 002

Spear, Thomas George Percival

SPEAR, PERCIVAL

Viking Pr

A History of India, Vol. One

This edition includes an additional appendix on sources discovered since 1961!!!!

A: soka and the Decline of the Mauryas

Oxford University Press

THAPAR, R.: FROM LINEAGE TO STATE. SOCIAL FORMATIONS IN THE MID-FIRST MILLENNIUM B.C. IN THE GANGA VALLEY. , 1985, 198 p. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

From Lineage to State : Social Formations of the Mid-First Millennium B.C. in the Ganges Valley

Ancient Civilizations

This is an attempt to define Indian society in the crucial period of the mid-first millennium BC and in the seminal area of the Ganges Valley. It examines the major change from a lineage-based society to the establishment of state systems, and takes into account the emergence of a peasant economy and the process of urbanization.

From Lineage to State

Thapar argues the importance of understanding and positioning various well-established perspectives on the Indian past in order to arrive at an informed understanding of contemporary situations--such as disputes between Hindus and other Indian communities. It is vitally important for historians and informed lay readers to consider the wide range of opinions and views that are available on our past, particularly on religion and society in ancient India. Interpretations rise out of ideological conceptions. Thapar shows that the most influential ideologies which shaped the writing of early India initially had their moorings in European concerns; later, the rise of Indian nationalism questioned many of these conceptions; and most recently, these nationalist interpretations have also been questioned. This volume has essays on Durkheim and Weber's views on Indian caste and society; on D.D. Kosambi's contribution to Indian historiography; and on the recent attempts to project a composite Hinduism in early India by ignoring evidence on the existence of multiple communities and diverse identities.

Interpreting Early India

In this study, Romila Thapar argues the importance of understanding and positioning various well-established perspectives on the Indian past in order to arrive at an informed understanding of contemporary situations--such as disputes between Hindus and other Indian communities. It is vitally important for historians and informed lay readers to consider the wide range of opinions and views that are available on the Indian past, interpretations have often risen out of ideological conceptions. Thapar shows that the most influential ideologies which shaped the writing of early India initially had their moorings in European concerns; later, the rise of Indian nationalism questioned many of these conceptions; and most recently, these nationalist interpretations have also been questioned.

Interpreting Early India (Oxford India Paperbacks)

This essay examines the link between time and history through the use of cyclic and linear concepts of time. While the former occurs in a cosmological context, the latter is found in familiar historical forms. The author argues for the existence of historical consciousness in early India on the evidence of early texts.

Time As a Metaphor of History: Early India (Krishna Bharadwaj Memorial Lecture Oxford India Paperbacks)

First published in 1961, this classic work is based largely on the edicts of Asoka, whose policies are analyzed against the background of Mauryan civilization during the third and fourth centuries B.C. The present edition has been thoroughly revised with a new afterword and archaeological site map.

Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas

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