History Perspectives I

Contents: Editorial note and acknowledgements/M. Rajivlochan. 1. Writing history/Devi Sirohi and Anju Suri. 2. Man and Environment in Early India: a historical perspective/Benudhar Patra. 3. The Merchants of the Indus Valley/Meeta and Rajivlochan. 4. Orthodox versus heterodox: change in social ethos/Ashvini Agrawal. 5. Orthodox versus heteroxdox: change in social ethos with the Greeks in Ancient Punjab/Ashvini Agrawal. 6. Give a dog a bad name and hang him: the case of the manusmriti and women in India/Meeta and Rajivlochan. 7. Development of market in the early decades of thirteenth centuryin India: a case tudyof Alauddin Khalji’s reign/Muhammad Idris and Roopam Jasmeet Kaur. 8. British Paramountcy in Jaipur and Bahawakoyr states/Anju Suri. 9. Enforcing social change: legislation for Muslim women in Colonial Punjab/Suman Bharti. 10. Local customs: Karewa in Punjab region/Bindu Bala.

Historians associated with Panjab University present a selection of recent researches done on Panjab in this volume. The sixteen papers included here cover an eclectic range of themes covering time periods from the earliest in Indian history to the most recent.