467 p., ISBN 019564708-4. These four books are on seemingly discrete and different aspects of early Indian history, yet they are interconnected.
Historiography links many facets, concerned as it is with interpretations of the past.
In recent years historical interpretation has drawn on other disciplines and this is evident in Interpreting Early India. The subject is history, but the discussions in this work move beyond history to provide a glimpse of explorations of new historical territories relating to early India. Time, it is argued in Time as a Metaphor of History, is an essential component of a historical perspective. Societies have varying forms of time, depending on function and perceptions. The most meaningful understanding of time and history is to view time at the intersection of the cyclic and the linear within the same society.