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Time as a Metaphor of History: Early India: The Krishna Bharadwaj Memorial Lecture Paperback / softback - 1996 - 1st Edition
by Romila Thapar
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- Title Time as a Metaphor of History: Early India: The Krishna Bharadwaj Memorial Lecture
- Author Romila Thapar
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 62
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, India
- Date 1996-05
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780195637984
- ISBN 9780195637984 / 0195637984
- Weight 0.1 lbs (0.05 kg)
- Dimensions 8.56 x 5.46 x 0.15 in (21.74 x 13.87 x 0.38 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Indian
- Library of Congress subjects Hindu chronology, India - Historiography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97193220
- Dewey Decimal Code 954
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From the rear cover
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 existence of linear time in Indian texts, such as genealogies, biographies, and chronicles, where time-reckoning was recorded through generations, regnal years and eras. It is suggested that cyclic and linear time were both used, but that their functions differed. Cyclic time occurs frequently in cosmological contexts and linear time in historical sources. The author argues that historical consciousness existed in early India.