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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Ancient Indian social history</title>
    <subTitle>some interpretations</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Thapar, Romila.</namePart>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">New Delhi</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Orient Longman</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1978 [Reprinted 1996]</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">1996</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
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    <extent>x, 396 pages : illustrations, tables, map ; 23 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>1. Interpretation of Ancient Indian history
2. Society and law in the Hindu and Buddhist traditions
3. Ethics, religion and social protest in the First Millenium B.C. in Northern India
4. Renunciation : the making of a counter-culture?
5. Dāna and Daksinā as forms of exchange
6. Social mobility in Ancient India with special reference to elite groups
7. The image of the barbarian in early India
8. The historian and archaeological data
9. The study of society in Ancient India
10. Puranic lineages and archaeological cultures
11. The tradition of historical writing in early India
12. Origin myths and the early Indian historical tradition
13. Genealogy as a source of social history
14. The scope and significance of regional history</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Romila Thapar.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <subject>
    <geographic>India</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>324 B.C.-1000 A.D</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject>
    <geographic>India</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>To 324 B.C</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject>
    <geographic>India</geographic>
    <topic>Civilization</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject>
    <geographic>India</geographic>
    <topic>Historiography</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc">934</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">812500808X</identifier>
  <location>
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