The past before us : historical traditions of early north India
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TextPublication details: Ranikhet Permanent black 2013Description: xvii, 758 p. 7 mapsISBN: 9788178243979Subject(s): Literature and history | Collective memoryDDC classification: 934 Summary: About the Book: The Past Before Us It has so often been said that Indian civilization lacks historical writing-and therefore a sense of history-that this notion passes for a truism. There has been little attempt to show up the falsity of the generalization. In the present book-a magisterial historiographical survey of every major form within which ancient North Indian history is embedded or evident-Romila Thapar shows an intellectually dynamic ancient world profuse with ideas about the past, an arena replete with societies constructing, reconstructing, and contesting various visions of worlds before their own. "To determine what makes for this historical consciousness", says Professor Thapar, "is not just an
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About the Book: The Past Before Us It has so often been said that Indian civilization lacks historical writing-and therefore a sense of history-that this notion passes for a truism. There has been little attempt to show up the falsity of the generalization. In the present book-a magisterial historiographical survey of every major form within which ancient North Indian history is embedded or evident-Romila Thapar shows an intellectually dynamic ancient world profuse with ideas about the past, an arena replete with societies constructing, reconstructing, and contesting various visions of worlds before their own. "To determine what makes for this historical consciousness", says Professor Thapar, "is not just an
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