TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chakravarti, Uma
TI  - Everyday lives, everyday histories: : beyond the kings and Brahmanas of 'ancient' India
SN  - 9788189487041
U1  - 934  
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New Delhi	
PB  - Tulika Books	
KW  - Ancient India
KW  - Orientalism
KW  - History- India
N1  - https://tulikabooks.in/catalog/product/view/id/21713/s/everyday-lives-everyday-histories-tulika
N2  - This volume of essays moves the historiography of ancient India in the service of a history of the present. The cultural onslaught of a Brahmanical saffron culture within popular discourse, and the fight against entrenched class and caste interests led by women, Dalits and other marginalized groups, frame this battle for ‘ancient’ India. Through an in-depth analysis of myths and original sources, the author provides novel grounds for contesting the foundations of such charged concepts as ‘nation’, ‘civilization’ and ‘womanly honour’. Reading against the grain of canonical sources, she presents a distinctive reading of lesser-known Buddhist Pali texts, the Jataka stories, and even contemporary texts like the TV serials Chanakya and Ramayana, to demonstrate the stratifications in early Indian society
ER  -