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Cultural Pasts: Essays in Early Indian History

Cultural Pasts collects essays on a range of subjects in early Indian history. Its focus is on historiography and the changing dimensions of social and cultural history. The essays are divided into nine thematic groups: historiography, both current and from earlier periods; social and cultural transactions; archaeology and history; pre-Mauryan and Mauryan India; forms of exchange; the society of the heroes in the epics and the later tradition of venerating the hero; genealogies and origin myths as historical sources; the social context of the renouncer; and the past in the present — the use of the early past in current ideologies.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 1172
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780195664874
  • Genres
  • history, india
  • Release date
  • 2003