![]() | The Past Before Us Subjects: India Northeastern -- Historiography; India Northeastern -- History -- To 1500; Literature and history -- India Northeastern; Collective memory -- India North; 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 Before Us , a distinguished scholar of ancient India guides us through a panoramic survey of the historical traditions of North India. Thapar reveals a deep and sophisticated consciousness of history embedded in the diverse body of classical Indian literature. Thapar Romila : Romila Thapar is Emeritus Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. |
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