Narratives and the making of history : two lectures
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Given as the D.D. Kosambi Memorial Lectures at Bombay University in 1999. These two essays explore some facets of the interface between narrative and history. The first explores the versions of the story of Sakuntala. The second juxtaposes the data on the raid of Mahmuud of Ghazni on the temple of Somanatha.
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