From Dãʹsarājña to Kurukṣetra : making of a historical tradition / Kanad Sinha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sinha, Kanad, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mahābhārata.

India--Historiography.

India.

India--Antiquities.

India--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Is it true that the ancient Indians had no sense of history? The book begins with this question, and points out how the ways of perceiving the past could be culture-specific and how the concept of historical traditions can be useful in studying the various ways of memorising and representing the past, even if those ways do not necessarily correspond to the methodology of the Occidental discipline called 'history'. Ancient India had several historical traditions, and the book focuses on one of them, the itihasa. It also shows how the Mahabharata is the best illustration of this tradition, and how a historical study of the contents of the text, with comparison with and corroboration from other contemporary sources and traditions, may help us restore the text in its original context in the bardic historical tradition about the Later Vedic Kurus.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 15, 2024).

ISBN:

9780190993467

OCLC:

1429905620