Time as a metaphor of history : early India /

It has long been maintained that the only concept of time known to early India was cyclic. This in part accounts for the Indian denial of history, since a sense of history is based on linear time. This study sets the argument in the context of links between time and history. It indicates the existen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Thapar, Romila
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Series:	Krishna Bharadwaj memorial lecture. Oxford India paperbacks.
Subjects:	Hindu chronology. India > Historiography. Chronologie hindoue. Hindu chronology Historiography India Tijdsbeleving. Geschiedschrijving. Oudheid. Time measurements > India. Electronic books. History
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

I. Argument
II. Time-reckoning
III. Cosmological Time
IV. Authors
V. Time and the Decline of Dharma
VI. Myth and History
VII. Historical Time
VIII. Eschatology.