(The) Historian and her craft : collected essays and lectures. Volume III : social and cultural transactions / by Romila Thapar

Includes index.

introduction / Rajan Gurukkal -- LOOKING AT EPICS : The historian and the epic -- Some aspects of the economic data in the Mahabharata -- Dana and Dakina as forms of exchange -- The Ramayana : theme and variation -- THE HERO : Death and the hero -- As long as the Moon and the Sun endure -- Genealogies and claims to status -- Genealogical patterns as perceptions of the past -- Origin myths and the early Indian historical tradition -- Clan, cast and origin myths in early India -- The mouse in the ancestry -- INDIA AND EUROPE IN EARLY TIMES : The image of the Barbarian in early India -- Indian view of Europe : representations of the Yavanas in early Indian history -- Black gold : south Asia and the Roman maritime trade -- Time concepts, social identities and historical consciousness in early India