Readings in early Indian history / by Thapar, Romila

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: I.Historiography -- 1.Decolonizing the Past -- 2.The Contribution of D.D. Kosambi to Indology -- 3.Society and Historical Consciousness: The Itihasa-purana Tradition -- II.Economy and Society -- 4.Society in Ancient India: The Formative Period -- 5.Lineage Society -- 6.The Evolution of the State in the Ganga Valley in the Mid-first Millennium BC -- 7.Black Gold: South Asia and the Roman Maritime Trade -- III.Changing Political Formations -- 8.The Mauryan Empire in Early India -- 9.Society and Economic Activity in the Late First Millennium BC -- 10.Text and Context: Megasthenes and the Seven Castes -- 11.Asoka: A Retrospective -- IV.Religion, Philosophy, and Society -- 12.Sacrifice, Surplus, and the Soul -- 13.The Householder and the Renouncer in the Brahmanical and Buddhist Traditions -- 14.Patronage and the Community -- V.Towards Further Change -- 15.Sakuntala: Histories of a Narrative -- 16.Somanatha: Narratives of a History.…”