Includes bibliographical references.

"Hermann Kulke: a bibliography"--P. [381]-390.

PART 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 11
2. Archaeology of Orissa: A Historiographic Study
KISHOR K. BASA 23
3. Ways of Seeing: History and Historiography
of the State in Early India
BHAIRABI PRASAD SAHU 63
4. The Horse in Indian History
Dietmar Rothermund 83
PART II
ISSUES IN SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST ASIAN HISTORY
5. Kharavela and the Connected Problems
SNIGDHA TRIPATHY 91
6. The Date Formula in Early Ceylonese Inscriptions
HARRY FALK 117
7. Indian Tradition and Time
ALOKA PARASHER-SEN 129
8. On Board the Hermapollon:
Transporting Gangetic Nard from Muziris
RANABIR CHAKRAVARTI 147
9. A Theatre of Broken Dreams
VidiSa in the Days of Gupta Hegemony
HANS BAKKER 165
10. Early Medieval Orissa: The Data and the Debate
UPINDER SINGH 189
11. Rabindranath Tagore in Myanmar and His Perception
of Southeast Asia-India Relations
SWAPNA BHATTACHARYA 213
PART III
POLITICS OF IDENTITY AND CULTURE
12. The Oriya Movement and Singhbhum
NIVEDITA MOHANTY 233
13. Blurred Boundaries: Religion and Politics in Orissa
ISHITA BANERJEE-DUBE 263
14. Problematizing Heritage: Region, Religion
and the Making of Cultural Identity
YAAMINEY MUBAYI 279
15. Mapping the Mahatma: Literary Tracts and
Rumours in Late Colonial Orissa
CHANDI PRASAD NANDA 291
16. Decolonised Orissa: Issues and Problems
BISWAMOY PATI 303
17. The Pure Spring: A Cosmogram at Khallikot
JOANNA WILLIAMS 331
18. Kondh Classification and Mythology in
Macpherson's 'Account'
GEORG PFEFFER 347
19. Some Remarks on the Vdmadeva Samhita:
A Saivite Version of the Pi5j Manuals
of Lord Jagann5tha
G. C. TRIPATHI 365

Contributed articles predominantly on historiography and historians of India and area study of Orissa historical related topics.