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Donative Epigraphy in Ancient South Asia

Dr Matthew D. Milligan

Central to South Asian donative epigraphy is the concept of dana (‘gift’ or ‘giving’) to individuals and religious groups, possibly in a symbiotic exchange for ritual or poetic services, or simply just for religious/spiritual merit. Dana as a socio-religious concept likely belongs to the earliest—…

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In Conversation with Professor Romila Thapar with the participation of Dr Kanad Sinha: The Inscriptions of Emperor Ashoka

Dev Kumar Jhanjh

Dev Kumar Jhanjh (DKJ): So to start with, ma’am, if we look at your latest works, you have focused more on the textual sources. In such a scenario, how important do you think inscriptions are in deconstructing early Indian history? Romila Thapar (RT): First of all, let me say that I don’t think I…

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In Conversation with Professor B.D. Chattopadhyaya with the participation of Professor Suchandra Ghosh: The Different Aspects of Indian Epigraphy

Dev Kumar Jhanjh

Dev Kumar Jhanjh (DKJ): Orientalists argue that there was an absence of a sense of history in early India. But don’t you think that the presence of a voluminous number of inscriptions, more than one lakh, negates this Orientalist view? Doesn’t their existence testify to the presence of literacy in…

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