(The) Historian and her craft : collected essays and lectures. Volume IV : religion and society / by Romila Thapar

Includes index.

Introduction / Kunal Chakrabarti -- EXPLORING NEW IDEAS : Sacrifice, surplus and the soul -- Ideology, society and the Upanisads -- ethics, region and social protest in the early Indian tradition -- Renunciation : the making of a counter-culture? -- The householder and the renouncer in the Brahmanical and Buddhist traditions -- millenarianism and religion in early India -- INCLUSION AND EXILE : The Puranas : heresy and the Vamsanucarita -- Exile and the kingdom : some thoughts on the 'Ramayana' -- Perceiving the forest : early India -- RELIGION AS AN ASPECT OF POLITICS : Syndicated Hinduism -- FORMS OF PATRONAGE - OLD AND NEW : Culture transaction and early India : tradition and patronage -- Patronage and the community -- The museum and history -- The museum experience