(The) Historian and her craft : collected essays and lectures. Volume I : ideology, theory and history historiographical reflection on ancient India / by Romila Thapar

Includes index.

General introduction / Romila Thapar -- Introduction / Neeladri Bhattacharya -- DECOLONIZING HISTORY : Ideology and the interpretation of early Indian history -- Early India ; an overview -- The decolonization of history : early India -- MARXISM, SOCIOLOGY AND THE WRITING OF HISTORY : Durkheim and weber on theories of society and race relating to pre-colonial India -- The contribution of D. D. Kosambi to Indology -- WRITING THE REGION : Regional history : the Punjab -- Regional history with reference to the Konkan -- SECULARISM AND THE WRITING OF HISTORY : Imagined religious communities? :ancient history and the modern search for a Hindu identity -- Secularism and history -- The historiography of the concept of 'Aryan' -- The Tyranny of labels -- THE QUESTION OF HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS : Society and historical consciousness : the itihasa-purana tradition -- Was there historical writing in early India? -- NARRATIVE AND HISTORY : A historical perspective on the story of Rama -- Sakuntala : histories of a narrative -- Somanath : narratives of a history