Interrogating History : Essays for Hermann Kulke

Contents: Preface. I. Ways of questioning: Historians and historiography: 1. Hermann Kulke\'s contribution to the study of Indian history and culture/Martin Brandtner and Shishir Kumar Panda. 2. Archaeology of Orissa: a historiographic study/Kishor K. Basa. 3. Ways of seeing: history and historiography of the state in early India/Bhairabi Prasad Sahu. 4. The horse in Indian history/Dietmar Rothermund. II. Issues in south and South-east Asian history: 5. Kharavela and the connected problems/Snigdha Tripathy. 6. The date formula in early ceylonese inscriptions/Harry Falk. 7. Indian tradition and time/Aloka Parasher-Sen. 8. On board the Hermapollan: transporting Gangetic Nard from Muziris/Ranabir Chakravarti. 9. A theatre of broken dreams Vidisa in the days of Gupta Hegemony/Hans Bakker. 10. Early medieval Orissa: the data and the debate/Upinder Singh. 11. Rabindranath Tagore in Myanmar and his perception of Southeast Asia-India relations/Swapna Bhattacharya. III. Politics of identity and culture: 12. The Oriya movement and Singhbhum/Nivedita Mohanty. 13. Blurred boundaries: religion and politics in Orissa/Ishita Banerjee-Dube. 14. Problematizing heritage: region, religion and the making of cultural identity/Yaaminey Mubayi. 15. Mapping the Mahatma: literary tracts and Rumours in late colonial Orissa/Chandi Prasad Nanda. 16. Decolonised Orissa: issues and problems/Biswamoy Pati. 17. The pure spring: a Cosmogram at Khallikot/Joanna Williams. 18. Kondh classification and mythology in Macpherson\'s \'account\'/Georg Pfeffer. 19. Some remarks on the Vamadeva Samhita: a saivite version of the puja manuals of lord Jagannatha/G.C. Tripathi. Hermann Kulke: a bibliography. List of contributors.

"This felicitation volume is in honour of Professor Hermann Kulke whose contribution to the world of history, especially Indian history, is very well known. It incorporates essays which are thematically and spatially related to his areas of interest. Thus, the three sections into which the contributions are organized broadly overlap with some of the areas of historical enquiry as well as geographical regions that have attracted Professor Kulke-Historians and Historiography, south and Southeast Asia and last but not the least, Orissa." (jacket)