Historiography: Ideology and the interpretation of early Indian history ; Regional history: the Punjab ; Society and historical consciousness: the Itihasa-purana tradition ; Antecedents, religious sanctions and political legitimation in the Ladakh chronicles -- Social and cultural transactions: Dissent and protest in the early Indian tradition ; The image of the barbarian in early India -- Archeology and history: Society in ancient India: the formative period -- Pre-Mauryan and Mauryan India: the evolution of the state in the Ganga Valley in the mid-first millennium ; Asoka and Buddism as reflected in the Asokan edicts ; Epigraphic evidence and some Indo-Hellenistic contacts during the Mauryan period -- Forms of exchange: Dana and Daksina as forms of exchange ; Indian views of Europe: representations of the Yavanas in early Indian history ; Black gold: South Asia and the Roman maritime trade ; Patronage and the community -- Of heroes and history: Some aspects of the economic data in the Mahabharata ; The Ramayana: theme and variation -- Genealogies and origin myths as historical sources: Clan, Caste and origin myths in early India -- Renouncer in a social context: Ideology, society and the Upanisads ; Ethics, religion and social protest in the first millennium BC in Northern India ; The householder and the renouncer in the Brahmanical and Buddhist traditions ; Millenarianism and religion in early India -- The present in the past: Ancient history and the modern search for a Hindu identity ; A historical perspective on the story of Rama ; The politics of religious communities ; The theory of Aryan race and India: history and politics

1. India -- History -- To 324 B.C
2. India -- History -- 324 B.C.-1000 A.D