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100 _aThapar, Romila
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245 _aTalking History
260 _bOxford University Press
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_aNew Delhi
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500 _aIntroduction: Thinking History in Critical Times Part I: From Punjab to London Chapter I: A Happy Half-Way Chapter II: Religions and Storytelling Chapter III: A Secular Environment Chapter IV: Talking Politics Chapter V: Following Gandhi Chapter VI: Facing Hindu Fundamentalism Chapter VII: Living with the British Chapter VIII: Reading Novels Chapter IX: Discovering the Indian Classics Chapter X: A Nehruvian Ideal Chapter XI: A Radical-Minded Student Chapter XII: Reading Philosophy Chapter XIII: Hollywood or Bollywood? Chapter XIV: Living in London in the 1950s Chapter XV: Becoming a Historian Chapter XVI: Return to India Chapter XVII: Marx and Marxism Chapter XVIII: Stalinism and After Chapter XIX: Teaching at JNU Part II: The Function of the Historian Chapter I: Reading the Past Chapter II: Is There a Pattern in History? Chapter III: What Is a Historical Fact? Chapter IV: Objectivity in the Work of a Historian Chapter V: The Sources in History Chapter VI: Is History a Single Voice? Chapter VII: Is Historical Narrative a Rational System? Chapter VIII: Historians and Philosophy of History Chapter XIX: What Is Oral History? Chapter X: What Is Historicity? Chapter XI: A Two Way Process Chapter XII: Which Authority Festures in Historical Research? Chapter XIII: History and the Greeks Chapter XIV: History and Epic Part III: Modern Writing of Early Indian History Chapter I: The Orientalists and the Utilitarians Chapter II: What Is Oriental Despotism? Chapter III: Kingship or Empire Chapter IV: India without the British Chapter V: Culture of Civilization? Chapter VI: The Idea of the Indian Nation Chapter VII: Tradition and Culture in India Chapter VIII: Tradition and Non-Violence Chapter IX: Going beyond the Blurriness Chapter X: Memory and Forgetfulness Part IV: Lineage and Kingship Chapter I: Ashoka: Between the Ethical and the Political Chapter II: Ashoka and Gandhi Chapter III: Ashoka and Marxist Historians Chapter IV: History and Charismatic Literature Chapter V: Attitude towards Spiritualism and Mysticism Chapter VI: A Rationalist Historian Chapter VII: Communal Ideologies in India Chapter VIII: The Role of Archaeology and Anthropology Chapter IX: Blood, Kinship and Lineage Chapter X: History and Political Ideologies Chapter XI: The Ideas of Hindusim Chapter XII: The Ideologues of Hindu Nationalism Part V: The Historian and the Epic Chapter I: Looking at the Epic Chapter II: The Historicity of the Epic Chapter III: The Two Levels of Temporality Chapter IV: Concepts of Time Chapter V: The Moderns and the Concept of Inevitability Chapter VI: Linearity and Evolution Chapter VII: The Heroes and Exile Chapter VIII: Retaliation and Forgiveness Chapter IX: Tragic Drama in India Chapter X: Machiavelli and the Arthashastra Part VI: Shakuntala and Somanatha Chapter I: The Historian's Impulse Chapter II: Somanatha and Communal Historical Writing Chapter III: The Rashomon Effect Chapter IV: Why is Somanatha important? Chapter V: The Centrality of the Event Chapter VI: Is There an Indian Marxism? Chapter VII: New Schools of History Writing Chapter VIII: Looking at the Past About the Author
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700 _aBhattacharya, Neeladri
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