- [List of] Maps and Tables*
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part I: The Search for a Historical Tradition
- 1. Searching for Early Indian Historical Writing
- 2. Towards Historical Traditions
- Part II: The Embedded Tradition
- 3. Fragmentary Narratives from the Vedas
- 4. The Mahābhārata
- 5. The Rāmāyaṇa
- Part III: Interlude: The Emerging Historical Tradition
- 6. Genealogies in the Making of a Historical Tradition: The Vaṃśānucarita of the Viṣṇu Purāṇa
- 7. Early Inscriptions as Historical Statements (Up to c. the Sixth Century AD)
- 8. History as Literature: The Plays of Viśākhadatta
- Part IV: Alternative Histories
- 9. The Buddhist Tradition: Monks as Historians
- 10. The Monastic Chronicles of Sri Lanka
- 11. Buddhist Biographies
- Part V: The Historical Tradition Externalized
- 12. Historical Biographies: The Harṣacarita and the Rāmacarita
- 13. Biographies as Histories
- 14. Inscriptions as Official Histories—and the Voice of the Bard
- 15. Vaṃśāvalīs: Chronicles of Place and Person—The Rājataraṅgiṇī
- 16. The Chamba Vaṃśāvalī
- 17. The Prabandha-cintāmaṇi
- 18. Therefore: Looking Back and Looking Forward
- Bibliography
- Index
- * Maps and Tables
- Maps of Locations of the More Important Places, Clans, and Dynasties
- 1. Chapter 3
- 2. Chapter 4
- 3. Chapter 5
- 4. Chapter 7
- 5. Chapter 12
- 6. Chapter 14
- 7. Chapters 16 and 17
- Tables
- 1. Texts of the Vedic Corpus
- 2. Abbreviated Descent List
- 3. Abbreviated Descent List
- 4. Historical Change Suggested in the Vaṃśānucarita
- Maps of Locations of the More Important Places, Clans, and Dynasties
