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Talking history / Romila Thapar in conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo ; with the participation of Neeladri Bhattacharya.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thapar, Romila, interviewee.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thapar, Romila--Interviews.
- Thapar, Romila.
- Bhattacharya, Neeladri--Interviews.
- Bhattacharya, Neeladri.
- Historians--India--Interviews.
- Historians.
- Literature and history.
- Historiography.
- History.
- Interviews.
- India--History--Miscellanea.
- India.
- India--Historiography--Miscellanea.
- Literature and history--Miscellanea.
- Genre:
- Trivia and miscellanea.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 340 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [New Delhi, India] : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- I From Panjab to London
- A Happy Half-way 1
- Religions and Storytelling 6
- A Secular Environment 11
- Talking Politics 15
- Following Gandhi 18
- Living with the British 26
- Reading Novels 30
- Discovering the Indian Classics 31
- A Nehruvian Ideal 33
- A Radical-minded Student 36
- Reading Philosophy 40
- Living in London in the 1950s 43
- Becoming a Historian 56
- Return to India 59
- Marx and Marxism 62
- Teaching at JNU 66
- II The Function of the Historian
- Reading the Past 70
- Is There a Pattern in History? 76
- What Is a Historical Fact? 79
- Objectivity in the Work of a Historian 83
- The Sources in History 87
- Is History a Single Voice? 89
- Is Historical Narrative a Rational System? 92
- Historians and Philosophy of History 95
- What Is Oral History? 99
- What Is Historicity? 103
- Which Authority Features in Historical Research? 107
- History and the Greeks 112
- History and Epic 115
- III Modern Writing of Early Indian History
- The Orientalists and the Utilitarians 126
- What Is Oriental Despotism? 130
- Kingship or Empire? 132
- India without the British 138
- Culture of Civilization? 141
- The Idea of the Indian Nation 143
- Tradition and Culture in India 146
- Tradition and Non-violence 148
- Going beyond the Blurriness 151
- Memory and Forgetfulness 156
- IV Lineage and Kingship
- Ashoka: Between the Ethical and the Political 163
- Ashoka and Gandhi 168
- Interpreting Ashoka 172
- History and Charismatic Literature 178
- Communal Ideologies in India 188
- The Role of Archaeology and Anthropology 200
- Blood, Kinship, and Lineage 205
- History and Political Ideologies 210
- The Ideas of Hinduism as Part of Social Functions 219
- The Ideologues of Hindu Nationalism 230
- V The Historian and the Epic
- Looking at the Epic 236
- The Historicity of the Epic 239
- The Two Levels of Temporality 244
- Concepts of Times 250
- Linearity and Evolution 257
- The Heroes and Exile 261
- Retaliation and Forgiveness 266
- Targic Drama in India 268
- VI Shakuntala and Somanatha
- The Historian's Impulse 281
- Somanatha and Communal Historical Writing 289
- The Rashomon Effect 296
- The Centrality of the Event 301
- Is there an Indian Marxism? 306
- New Schools of History Writing 313
- Looking at the Past 322.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199474271
- 0199474273
- OCLC:
- 1001376215
- Publisher Number:
- 99974133376
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