TY - BOOK AU - Kulke Hermann AU - Kulke,Hermann AU - Sahu, B P AU - Chirmuley,Parnal TI - History of precolonial India: : issues and debates SN - 9780199491353 U1 - 950 KUL PY - 2018/// CY - New Delhi, India PB - : Oxford University Press, KW - History KW - History of Asia KW - India -- History -- To 324 B.C KW - India -- History -- 324 B.C.-1000 A.D KW - India -- History -- 1000-1765 KW - India -- Historiography KW - India KW - Historiography N1 - Translation of: Indische Geschichte bis 1750. Copyright: Walter De Gruyter GmbH N2 - A comprehensive and analytical assessment of the history of the Indian0subcontinent until 1750 CE, History of Precolonial India situates Indian history in the wider context of its Asiatic background in an effort to accommodate the ongoing cultural transactions, intersections, and overlaps. This, it is hoped, will allow the reader to go beyond the usual brief flirtations with Asian history and appreciate the historical significance of the cultural and political interactions across the shifting and permeable regional borders.0Divided into three parts, the book begins with an exploration of ancient and medieval South Asian history. The second part focuses on the major debates in precolonial Indian history such as periodization, the Indo-Aryan problem, state formation, and the Indian Ocean trade. The final section comprises a thematically arranged and exhaustive bibliography.0In bringing out the changing historiographical contours through time, this volume focuses on facets of connected histories that went into the shaping of the cultural fabric of South Asia ER -