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Covering the period, c. 600-1300 CE, this volume presents a comprehensive account of early medieval India. Divided into four parts, Part I highlights the major explanatory models including their perspectives on the political processes of the period. It contains the latest and most mature reflections with regard to feudalism, segmentary state, and the integrative /processual models. Part II focuses on social and economic processes like the varna, jati, agrarian structure, urban patterns and trade as well as gender relations. Part III discusses religion and culture and how these were expressed within and beyond regional configurations. It raises important questions concerning the relationship between region, religion, community and identity. Part IV examines the important, but till recently rather neglected, spheres of language and ideas of the subcontinent's pre-Sultanate and non-Sultanate history. The introduction analyses the early medieval in the context of larger questions related to periodization and focuses on general historiographical issues.It also gives the reader an entry-point into debates on various facets of the period, anchoring the discussion of major themes to the selected essays. The book gives an overview of the debates as well as opens the door to fresh areas of inquiry which have so far been neglected.
Contents
Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction by Upinder Singh; Part IAlternative Models and Political Frameworks: Chapter 1. The Nature of Indian Feudalism by R.S. Sharma; Chapter 2. The Segmentary State: Interim Reflections by Burton Stein; Chapter 3. The Early and the Imperial Kingdom: A Processural Model of Integrative State Formation in Early Medieval India by Hermann Kulke; Part II: Village, Town, and Society: Chapter 4. Land Rights and Social Stratification by Kesavan Veluthat; Chapter 5. Nagaram: Commerce and Towns AD 850-1350 by Noboru Karashima; Chapter 6. Precolonial India in Practice: Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra by Cynthia Talbot; Chapter 7. Gender Relations in Early Medieval Kashmir by Devika Rangachari; Part III: Religion and Culture, within and Across Regions: Chapter 8. Domesticity and Difference? Women and Men: Religious Life in Medieval Tamilnadu by Leslie Orr; Chapter 9. Cult Region: The Puranas and the Making of the Cultural Territory of Bengal by Kunal Chakravarti; Chapter 10. The Flying Messenger by Kapila Vatsyayana; Part IV: Mapping Language, Ideas, and Attitudes; Chapter 11. The Language of the Gods in the World of Men by Sheldon Pollock; Chapter 12. The Problem of Violence in Kamandaka's Nitisara by Upinder Singh; Chapter 13. Images of Raiders and Rulers by B. D. Chattopadhayaya, Notes on Contributors
