The Past Before Us : : Historical Traditions of Early North India / / Romila Thapar.
The claim, often made, that India-uniquely among civilizations-lacks historical writing distracts us from a more pertinent question, according to Romila Thapar: how to recognize the historical sense of societies whose past is recorded in ways very different from European conventions. In The Past Bef...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- PART I The Search for a Historical Tradition
- 1 Searching for Early Indian Historical Writing
- 2 Towards Historical Traditions
- PART II The Embedded Tradition
- 3 Fragmentary Narratives from the Vedas
- 4 The Mahābhārata
- 5 The Rāmāyaṇa
- PART III Interlude: The Emerging Historical Tradition
- 6 Genealogies in the Making of a Historical Tradition: The Vaṃśānucarita of the Viṣṇu Purāṇa
- 7 Early Inscriptions as Historical Statements (Up to c. the Sixth Century ad)
- 8 History as Literature: The Plays of Viśākhadatta
- PART IV Alternative Histories
- 9 The Buddhist Tradition: Monks as Historians
- 10 The Monastic Chronicles of Sri Lanka
- 11 Buddhist Biographies
- PART V The Historical Tradition Externalized
- 12 Historical Biographies: The Harṣacarita and the Rāmacarita
- 13 Biographies as Histories
- 14 Inscriptions as Official Histories—and the Voice of the Bard
- 15 Vaṃśāvalīs Chronicles of Place and Person—The Rājataraṅgiṇī
- 16 The Chamba Vaṃśāvalī
- 17 The Prabandha-cintāmaṇi
- 18 Therefore Looking Back and Looking Forward
- Bibliography
- Index