Drawn from a variety of academic disciplines and perspectives, this
volume approaches ancient India both historically and
geographically. The primary temporal focus lies in India's "Early
Historic" period, from the mid-first millennium BCE through the
mid-first millennium CE. The geographic focus is shifted landward
rather than seaward and is centered on South Asia rather than the
Mediterranean. Contributors examine power and material culture;
Mediterranean image making, which looks at Greek and Roman
understandings of India; and language and otherness, which explores
Indian knowledge and understandings of outsiders. The volume as a
whole directs us to the complex webs and networks that throughout
Indian history have linked South Asians to each other and to the
world beyond the subcontinent. A very wide world indeed.
Contributors are Shinu A. Abraham, Madhav Deshpande, Grant Parker,
Alka Patel, Himanshu P. Ray, James Romm, Martha Ann Selby, and
Thomas R. Trautmann.
Grant Parker is Assistant Professor of Classics, Stanford
University.
Carla M. Sinopoli is Professor of Anthropology and Curator and
Director, Museum of Anthropology, College of Literature, Science,
and the Arts, University of Michigan.
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