001479461 000__ 06620nam\a22009495i\4500 001479461 001__ 1479461 001479461 003__ DE-B1597 001479461 005__ 20231026035027.0 001479461 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479461 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479461 008__ 230103t20132013mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479461 019__ $$a(OCoLC)885221678 001479461 020__ $$a9780674726512 001479461 0247_ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674726512$$2doi 001479461 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)209640 001479461 035__ $$a(OCoLC)859536567 001479461 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479461 0410_ $$aeng 001479461 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001479461 050_4 $$aDS483.65$$b.T53 2013eb 001479461 072_7 $$aHIS017000$$2bisacsh 001479461 08204 $$a934.0072$$223 001479461 1001_ $$aThapar, Romila, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001479461 24514 $$aThe Past Before Us :$$bHistorical Traditions of Early North India /$$cRomila Thapar. 001479461 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2013] 001479461 264_4 $$c©2013 001479461 300__ $$a1 online resource (784 p.) :$$b7 maps 001479461 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479461 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479461 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479461 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479461 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tPreface -- $$tAcknowledgements -- $$tAbbreviations -- $$tPART I The Search for a Historical Tradition -- $$t1 Searching for Early Indian Historical Writing -- $$t2 Towards Historical Traditions -- $$tPART II The Embedded Tradition -- $$t3 Fragmentary Narratives from the Vedas -- $$t4 The Mahābhārata -- $$t5 The Rāmāyaṇa -- $$tPART III Interlude: The Emerging Historical Tradition -- $$t6 Genealogies in the Making of a Historical Tradition: The Vaṃśānucarita of the Viṣṇu Purāṇa -- $$t7 Early Inscriptions as Historical Statements (Up to c. the Sixth Century ad) -- $$t8 History as Literature: The Plays of Viśākhadatta -- $$tPART IV Alternative Histories -- $$t9 The Buddhist Tradition: Monks as Historians -- $$t10 The Monastic Chronicles of Sri Lanka -- $$t11 Buddhist Biographies -- $$tPART V The Historical Tradition Externalized -- $$t12 Historical Biographies: The Harṣacarita and the Rāmacarita -- $$t13 Biographies as Histories -- $$t14 Inscriptions as Official Histories-and the Voice of the Bard -- $$t15 Vaṃśāvalīs Chronicles of Place and Person-The Rājataraṅgiṇī -- $$t16 The Chamba Vaṃśāvalī -- $$t17 The Prabandha-cintāmaṇi -- $$t18 Therefore Looking Back and Looking Forward -- $$tBibliography -- $$tIndex 001479461 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479461 520__ $$aThe 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. The history recorded in such texts as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata is less concerned with authenticating persons and events than with presenting a picture of traditions striving to retain legitimacy and continuity amid social change. Spanning an epoch of nearly twenty-five hundred years, from 1000 BCE to 1400 CE, Thapar delineates three distinct historical traditions: an Itihasa-Purana tradition of Brahman authors; a tradition composed mainly by Buddhist and Jaina scholars; and a popular bardic tradition. The Vedic corpus, the epics, the Buddhist canon and monastic chronicles, inscriptions, regional accounts, and royal biographies and dramas are all scrutinized afresh-not as sources to be mined for factual data but as genres that disclose how Indians of ancient times represented their own past to themselves. 001479461 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479461 546__ $$aIn English. 001479461 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. 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