(The) Historian and her craft : collected essays and lectures. Volume II : pre-Mauryan and Mauryan India / by Romila Thapar
By: Thapar, Romila [Author].
Material type: TextPublisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2018.Description: xix, 333p. ; 23.5 cm.ISBN: 9780199467747; 0199467749.Subject(s): History -- India -- Historiography | HistoryDDC classification: 954.0072Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | HCC Seminar Library General Stacks | 954.0072 THH v.II (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | No : SBT/23-24/07 Date : 30.09.23 | 10671-10 |
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Includes index.
Introduction / Kumkum Roy -- STARTING UP : A possible identification of Meluhha, Dilmum and Makan -- Society in ancient India : the formative period -- ARCHAEOLOGY AND TEXTS : The Rigveda : encapsulating social change -- The archaeological background to the Agnicayana ritual -- Archaeological artifacts and literary data : an attempt at co-relation -- STATE AND EMPIRE : The evolution of the state in the Ganga valley in the mid-first millennium BC -- The early history of Mathura : up to and including the Mauryan period -- Towards the definition of an empire : the Mauryan state -- State weaving-shops of the Mauryan period -- INSCRIPTIONS : Ashok and Buddhism as reflected in the Ashokan edicts -- Raya Ashoka from Kanaganahalli : some thoughts -- Literacy and communication : some thoughts on the inscriptions of Ashoka -- BEYOND THE EMPIRE : Epigraphic evidence and some Indo-hellenistic contacts during the Mauryan period -- Text and context : megasthenes and the seven castes -- The role of the army in the exercise of power in the early India
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