Looking Back Through Our Identities - Itihasa Purana (Hardcover)

Aloka Parasher-Sen is Professor Emerita in the Department of Sanskrit Studies, University of Hyderabad, where she previously taught history for more than four decades. Her special focus on the historical milieu and archaeology of the Deccan, alongside her main area of interest in the social history of early India, namely early Indian attitudes towards foreigners, tribes and excluded castes, is reflected in her publications, notably Mlecchas in Early India (1991); Social and Economic History of Early Deccan: Some Interpretations (1993); Subordinate and Marginal Groups in Early India up to 1500 AD (2004); Religion and Modernity in India (2016, with Sekhar Bandhyopadhyay); Settlement and Local Histories of the Early Deccan (2021); Seeking History through Her Source, South of the Vindhyas (2022); Conversations with the Animate ‘Other’ (2023) and Gender, Religion and Local History: The Early Deccan (2023).