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The Past Before Us: Historical Traditions of Early North India
Romila Thapar
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Description for The Past Before Us: Historical Traditions of Early North India
Hardback. The claim that India uniquely lacks historical writing distracts us from a more pertinent question: how to recognize the historical sense of societies whose past is recorded in ways very different from European conventions. The author, distinguished scholar of ancient India, provides a panoramic survey of historical traditions in North India. Num Pages: 736 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBAH; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 209 x 48. Weight in Grams: 996.
“An authority on thousands of years of India’s past, Thapar has a rare and special perspective on the country it was and the country it is becoming.” —Financial Times
Winner of the Kluge Prize Romila Thapar presents a sweeping survey of the historical traditions of North India, revealing a deep consciousness of history embedded in classical Indian literature.
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
736
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
995g
Number of Pages
784
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674725232
SKU
V9780674725232
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About Romila Thapar
Romila Thapar is Emeritus Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Reviews for The Past Before Us: Historical Traditions of Early North India
Romila Thapar is one of India’s foremost historians and has made an immense contribution in the field of early Indian history…At a time when we find popular myths or manufactured tales about the past being peddled as history, Thapar has stressed the duty of historians to stick with the evidence.
Srabani Chakraborty
Jacobin
An authority on thousands ... Read more
Srabani Chakraborty
Jacobin
An authority on thousands ... Read more