Abstract
The review critiques the book titled Ancient India – Culture of Contradictions authored by Upinder Singh. The book presents a novel approach towards the study of ancient India. Singh focuses on the co-existing contradictions of Indian culture to break the stereotype of its monolithic past. Singh also attempts to illustrate that the historians of ancient India can contribute to contemporary debates through analogies. The review evaluates the efficacy of the idea of dialectic tensions to explain the history and idea of ancient Indian culture and examines the connections of ancient trends with current developments as evidenced in the book.
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