Indian Cultures as Heritage: Contemporary Pasts Thapar Romila
Indian Cultures as Heritage: Contemporary Pasts Thapar Romila One of India's preeminent historians examines the role of history in contemporary society.Every society has its cultures: patterns of how…
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Indian Cultures as Heritage: Contemporary Pasts Thapar Romila
One of India's preeminent historians examines the role of history in contemporary society.Every society has its cultures: patterns of how people live and express themselves and how they value objects and thoughts. Romila Thapar begins by explaining how definitions of culture have changed over the past three centuries. Recently, there has been considerable debate about what constitutes Indian culture and heritage and about how much diversity those categories ought to contain.
Thapar touches on a few of these illuminating contexts, such as social discrimination, the role of women, and attitudes toward science and knowledge. She suggests that cultures can be defined as a shared understanding of selected objects and thoughts from the past, but this understanding is often stripped of its historical context. This thought-provoking book is sure to spark productive debate about
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