Indian cultures as heritage : contemporary pasts
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi Aleph 2018Description: xl, 222 pISBN: 9789384067359; 9384067350Subject(s): India | civilizationDDC classification: 954 Summary: Every society has its cultures: patterns of how people live and express themselves and how they value objects and thoughts. Recently, there has been considerable debate about what constitutes Indian culture and heritage and about how much diversity those categories ought to contain. Romila Thapar begins by explaining how definitions of culture have changed over the past three centuries. She suggests that cultures can be defined as a shared understanding of selected objects and thoughts from the past, but this understanding is often stripped of its historical context. Thapar touches on a few of these illuminating contexts, such as social discrimination, the role of women, and attitudes toward science and knowledge. This thought-provoking book is sure to spark productive debate about some current shibboleths in India's culture.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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954 RIZ/W The wonder that was India: II | 954 RIZ/W The wonder that was India: II | 954 RIZ/W The wonder that was India: II | 954 ROM/I Indian cultures as heritage : contemporary pasts | 954 ROM/P The past as present : forging contemporary identities through history | 954 SAA/W why i write | 954 SAI/A An advanced history of modern India |
Every society has its cultures: patterns of how people live and express themselves and how they value objects and thoughts. Recently, there has been considerable debate about what constitutes Indian culture and heritage and about how much diversity those categories ought to contain. Romila Thapar begins by explaining how definitions of culture have changed over the past three centuries. She suggests that cultures can be defined as a shared understanding of selected objects and thoughts from the past, but this understanding is often stripped of its historical context. Thapar touches on a few of these illuminating contexts, such as social discrimination, the role of women, and attitudes toward science and knowledge. This thought-provoking book is sure to spark productive debate about some current shibboleths in India's culture.
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