TY - BOOK AU - Romila Thapar TI - Cultural Pasts: essays in early Indian history SN - 9780195664874 U1 - 934 R6649 C PY - 2000/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - India KW - Civilization N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0608/00440398-d.html ER -