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I | Historiography | 1 |
1 | Ideology and the Interpretation of Early Indian History | 3 |
2 | Durkheim and Weber on Theories of Society and Race Relating to Pre-colonial India | 21 |
3 | The Contribution of D. D. Kosambi to Indology | 52 |
4 | Early India: An Overview | 74 |
5 | Regional History: The Punjab | 95 |
6 | Regional History with Reference to the Konkan | 109 |
7 | Society and Historical Consciousness: The Itihasa-purana Tradition | 123 |
8 | Historical Consciousness in Early India | 155 |
9 | Antecedents, Religious Sanctions and Political Legitimation in the Ladakh Chronicles | 173 |
II | Social and Cultural Transactions | 193 |
10 | The Oral and the Written in Early India | 195 |
11 | Dissent and Protest in the Early Indian Tradition | 213 |
12 | The Image of the Barbarian in Early India | 235 |
III | Archaeology and History | 271 |
13 | A Possible Identification of Meluhha, Dilmun and Makan | 273 |
14 | Society in Ancient India: The Formative Period | 310 |
15 | The Archaeological Background to the Agnicayana Ritual | 336 |
16 | Archaeological Artifacts and Literary Data: An Attempt at Co-relation | 367 |
IV | Pre-Mauryan and Mauryan India | 375 |
17 | The Evolution of the State in the Ganga Valley in the Mid-first Millennium BC | 377 |
18 | The Early History of Mathura: Up to and Including the Mauryan Period | 396 |
19 | State Weaving-Shops of the Mauryan Period | 411 |
20 | Asoka and Buddhism as Reflected in the Asokan Edicts | 422 |
21 | Literacy and Communication: Some Thoughts on the Inscriptions of Asoka | 439 |
22 | Epigraphic Evidence and Some Indo-Hellenistic Contacts During the Mauryan Period | 453 |
23 | The Mauryas Revisited | 462 |
i | Towards the Definition of an Empire: The Mauryan State | 462 |
ii | Text and Context: Megasthenes and the Seven Castes | 488 |
V | Forms of Exchange | 519 |
24 | Dana and Daksina as Forms of Exchange | 521 |
25 | Indian Views of Europe: Representations of the Yavanas in Early Indian History | 536 |
26 | Black Gold: South Asia and the Roman Maritime Trade | 556 |
27 | Patronage and the Community | 589 |
VI | Of Heroes and History | 611 |
28 | The Historian and the Epic | 613 |
29 | Some Aspects of the Economic Data in the Mahabharata | 630 |
30 | The Ramayana: Theme and Variation | 647 |
31 | Death and the Hero | 680 |
32 | As Long as the Moon and the Sun Endure | 696 |
VII | Genealogies and Origin Myths as Historical Sources | 707 |
33 | Genealogical Patterns as Perceptions of the Past | 709 |
34 | Origin Myths and the Early Indian Historical Tradition | 754 |
35 | Clan, Caste and Origin Myths in Early India | 782 |
36 | The Mouse in the Ancestry | 797 |
VIII | The Renouncer in a Social Context | 807 |
37 | Sacrifice, Surplus, and the Soul | 809 |
38 | Ideology, Society and the Upanisads | 832 |
39 | Ethics, Religion and Social Protest in the First Millennium BC in Northern India | 856 |
40 | Renunciation: The Making of a Counter-culture? | 876 |
41 | The Householder and the Renouncer in the Brahmanical and Buddhist Traditions | 914 |
42 | Millenarianism and Religion in Early India | 946 |
IX | The Present in the Past | 963 |
43 | Imagined Religious Communities? Ancient History and the Modern Search for a Hindu Identity | 965 |
44 | The Tyranny of Labels | 990 |
45 | Secularism and History | 1015 |
46 | Syndicated Hinduism | 1025 |
47 | A Historical Perspective on the Story of Rama | 1055 |
48 | The Ramayana Syndrome | 1079 |
49 | The Defence of the Variant | 1089 |
50 | The Politics of Religious Communities | 1096 |
51 | The Theory of Aryan Race and India: History and Politics | 1108 |
Index | 1142 |
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