Reading:

Romila Thapar 2006. Interpreting early India. New Delhi: OUP, 1-22, 60-88.

Questions to the text:

What does Romila Thapar in her article call "immagined religious communities" and why is it so?

On which ground these imaginations are constructed?

How this immagination was influenced politically and what consequnces on politics it had?

How these immagined communities are related to Oriental studies?

How the view on Indian history was formed by the colonial situation/power?