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  -