The past before us: historical traditions of early north India

Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Search for a Historical Tradition

1.Searching for Early Indian Historical Writing

2.Towards Historical Traditions

pt. II The Embedded Tradition

3.Fragmentary Narratives from the Vedas

4.The Mahabharata

5.The Ramayana

pt. III Interlude: The Emerging Historical Tradition

6.Genealogies in the Making of a Historical Tradition: The Vamsanucarita of the Visnu Purana

7.Early Inscriptions as Historical Statements (Up to c. the Sixth Century AD)

8.History as Literature: The Plays of Visakhadatta

pt. IV Alternative Histories

9.The Buddhist Tradition: Monks as Historians

10.The Monastic Chronicles of Sri Lanka

11.Buddhist Biographies

pt. V The Historical Tradition Externalized

12.Historical Biographies: The Harsacarita and the Ramacarita

13.Biographies as Histories

14.Inscriptions as Official Histories

and the Voice of the Bard

15.Vamsavalis: Chronicles of Place and Person

The Rajatarangini

16.The Chamba Vamsavali

17.The Prabandha-cintamani

18.Therefore: Looking Back and Looking Forward.