Rethinking Early Medieval India
A Reader
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP India
- Date of Publication 7 June 2012
- ISBN 9780198086062
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 216x141x17 mm
- Weight 404 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 11 (10 figs & 1 map) 0
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Short description:
This book changes the way we look at the history of early medieval India (c. 600-1300 CE). Deftly tackling issues of periodization and continuities, it highlights the complex and multilinear nature of historical processes. From feudalism and state formation and economic and social structures in villages and cities to explorations in religion, art, and intellectual history of the period, this book sheds light on the economic, political and cultural history of the pre-Sultanate and non-Sultanate early medieval India.
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This reader presents a new understanding of the early medieval period of Indian history (c. 600-1300 CE), highlighting the complex and multilinear nature of its historical processes. The book examines the major historiographical debates and also moves beyond them, throwing light on many important aspects of the social, economic, political, and cultural history of the pre-Sultanate and non-Sultanate early medieval. The volume brings together a careful selection of readings, including seminal essays as well as recent writing. Comprehensive and thought-provoking, it discusses: theoretical frameworks, namely the feudalism, segmentary state, and integrative/processual models; political processes, including the interaction between states and forest tribes; village and city life, with a focus on agrarian structure, urban patterns, trade, varn?a, j?ti, and gender; religion, art, and culture, within and beyond regional frameworks; histories of language, literature, ideas, attitudes, and emotions. The introduction provides presents a critical and incisive overview and analysis of debates and writings related to a wide range of historical issues. In doing so, it raises new questions, suggests new approaches, and opens up possibilities for future research.
This book will interest students and teachers of ancient and medieval Indian history.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction by Upinder Singh
PART I: THEORETICAL MODELS AND POLITICAL PROCESSES:
How Feudal was Indian Feudalism? by R.S. Sharma
The Segmentary State: Interim Reflections by Burton Stein
The Early and the Imperial Kingdom: A Processual Model of Integrative State Formation in Early Medieval India by Hermann Kulke
PART II: VILLAGE, TOWN, AND SOCIETY:
Land Rights and Social Stratification by Kesavan Veluthat
Nagaram: Commerce and Towns AD 850-1350 by Noboru Karashima, Y. Subbarayalu, and P. Shanmugam
The Society of Kakatiya Andhra by Cynthia Talbot
Women and Power in Medieval Kashmir by Devika Rangachari
PART III: RELIGION AND CULTURE, WITHIN AND ACROSS REGIONS:
Domesticity and Difference/Women and Men: Religious Life in Medieval Tamil Nadu by Leslie C. Orr
Cult Region: The Pur?n?as and the Making of the Cultural Territory of Bengal by Kunal Chakrabarti
The Flying Messenger by Kapila Vatsyayan
PART IV: MAPPING LANGUAGE, IDEAS, AND ATTITUDES:
The Sanskrit Cosmopolis and the Vernacular Revolution by Sheldon Pollock
Politics, Violence and War in K?mandaka's N?tis?ra by Upinder Singh
Images of Raiders and Rulers by B.D. Chattopadhyaya
Notes on Contributors
