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020			_a9780199467747 _cRs.9995.00 [with v1, v3, v4]
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040			_aHCCL
041			_aeng
082			_a954.0072 _bTHH v.II
100	1		_4aut _aThapar, Romila
245			_a(The) Historian and her craft _bcollected essays and lectures. Volume II : pre-Mauryan and Mauryan India _cby Romila Thapar
260			_aNew Delhi _bOxford University Press _c2018
300			_axix, 333p. ; _c23.5 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
505	0	0	_tIntroduction / _rKumkum Roy -- _tSTARTING 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
650			_aHistory _zIndia _xHistoriography
650			_aHistory
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