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- CERTIFICATE
- DECLARATION
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
- CONTENTS
- 1 Introduction
- The Context
- Objectives
- Methodology
- Sources
- About the chapters
- Scope
- 2 The Representation of Past in the Pre-colonial Society of India
- Traditions in the Vedic Age
- Smrti
- A. The closed Tradition
- B. The Popular Tradition
- Gatha-s (Songs)
- Narasamsi
- Akhyana (dramatic narratives)
- The Ithihasa Traditions
- The Representation of Ramakatha in Hetrodox Religions
- The transition from Ramakatha to Ramayana
- The Studies on Ramayana
- The Historical Basis of Ramayana
- The Text of Ramayana and the social Roots of Representation
- Roots of the Mahabharata as a Text
- The Transition from Bharatakatha to Grand narrative
- Genealogies as
- Early Puranic Traditions
- Origin and Development
- Studies on the puranas - an Overview
- The Puranic myths as a Traditional form of Representation
- Genealogy
- Narratives in the Puranic Tradition
- Representation of Space and Time in the Puranas
- The Non puranic Traditions
- The Socio Economic Roots of the kavya-s and the carita-s as Representations of past
- An overview of the historical kavyas in Sanskrit
- An overview of the carita-s as representations of past
- 3 The Mapping of Tamilakam and Keralam in Colonial Historiography
- Geographical Formulations in Colonial Historiography of India
- Geographical and Political Definitions of South India
- Biased Representation and Southern India
- Historiography of Far South and Formation of Cultural Identities
- Tamilakam and Aryan Myth
- Dravidianism and Tamilakam as Counter History
- Aryan Myth and Historiography of Keralam
- Tamil Identity
- Local Traditions as Foundational to Tamil Identity
- Identifying Tamilakam through Political Defintions
- Historiography of Keralam under Colonialism
- West Coast in Traditional Narratives
- Role of Travelogues in Colonial Historiography of Keralam
- Defining Malayala Rajyam
- Anthropological Writings
- 4 Historians Craft under Colonialism-A Methodological Critique
- Defining Scientific Writing of History
- Tamil epics as sources
- Sangam age and historiography of Tamilakam
- 5 Conclusion
- BIBILIOGRAPHY
- APPENDICES
- A. Non-English terms and their diacritical marks
- B. Tables
- C. Illustrations