Cultural Pasts Essays in Early Indian History

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Historiography
1. Ideology and the Interpretation of Early Indian History
2. Durkheim and Weber on Theories of Society and Race Relating to Pre-colonial India
3. The Contribution of D.D. Kosambi to Indology
4. Early India: An Overview
5. Regional History: The Punjab
6. Regional History with Reference to the Konkan
7. Society and Historical Consciousness: The Itihdsa-purana Tradition
8. Historical Consciousness in Early India
9. Antecedents, Religious Sanctions and Political Legitimation in the Ladakh Chronicles
II. Social and Cultural Transactions
10. The Oral and the Written in Early India
11. Dissent and Protest in the Early Indian Tradition
12. The Image of the Barbarian in Early India
III. Archaeology and History
13. A Possible Identification of Meluhha, Dilmun and Makan
14. Society in Ancient India: The Formative Period
15. The Archaeological Background to the Agnicayana Ritual
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 Daksind 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 Mahdbhdrata 630
30. The Rdmdyana: 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
33. Genealogical Patterns as Perceptions of the Past
34. Origin Myths and the Early Indian Historical Tradition
35. Clan, Caste and Origin Myths in Early India
36. The Mouse in the Ancestry
VIII. The Renouncer in a Social Context
37. Sacrifice, Surplus, and the Soul
38. Ideology, Society and the Upanisads
39. Ethics, Religion and Social Protest in the First Millennium BC in Northern India
40. Renunciation: The Making of a Counter-culture?
41. The Householder and the Renouncer in the Brahmanical and Buddhist Traditions
Millenarianism and Religion in Early India
The Present in the Past
Imagined Religious Communities? Ancient History and the Modern Search for a Hindu Identity
The Tyranny of Labels
Secularism and History
Syndicated Hinduism
A Historical Perspective on the Story of Rama
The Rdmdyana Syndrome
In Defence of the Variant
The Politics of Religious Communities
The Theory of Aryan Race and India: History and Politics