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Time As A Metaphor Of History: Early India : The Krishna Bharadwaj Memorial Lecture

by Thapar Romila
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780195637984
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: History
  • Publisher: Oxford UP
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 64
  • Original Price: INR 195.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 46 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Asia / South / General

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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.

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