Complexities of Culture and Tensions in the Past

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https://doi.org/10.15407/orientw2023.01.199

  Neekee Chaturvedi

PhD (History and Indian Culture), Associate Professor, Department of History and Indian Culture, University of Rajasthan, JLN Marg, Jaipur, 302004, India.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8395-7454

Abstract

The review critiques the book titled Ancient India – Culture of Contradictions authored by Upinder Singh. The book presents a novel approach towards the study of ancient India. Singh focuses on the co-existing contradictions of Indian culture to break the stereotype of its monolithic past. Singh also attempts to illustrate that the historians of ancient India can contribute to contemporary debates through analogies. The review evaluates the efficacy of the idea of dialectic tensions to explain the history and idea of ancient Indian culture and examines the connections of ancient trends with current developments as evidenced in the book.

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Chaturvedi, N. (2023). Complexities of Culture and Tensions in the Past. The World of the Orient, (1 (118), 199-201. https://doi.org/10.15407/orientw2023.01.199
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Keywords

ancient India, Indian culture, dialectic tensions, historians

References
Le Goff J. (1992), History and Memory, Tr. Steven Rendall and Elizabeth Claman, Columbia University Press, New York.
Singh U. (2021), Ancient India – Culture of Contradictions, Aleph Book Company, New Delhi.
Issue
No. 1 (118) (2023): The World of the Orient
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