著者名：

Devadevan, Manu V.

出版元：

Cambridge U.P.

冊数：

xi,516p

刊行年：

2020

ISBN：

9781108748513

India -- Civilization -- History -- To 1200

India is generally regarded as a civilization with a set of intrinsic attributes that emerged in the age of the Vedas or, better still, in the Harappan times. In recent decades, historical studies have moved away from rigid perspectives of singularity in origin and expansion; the emphasis now is on pluralities and long-term processes spanning centuries and millennia. There is also an influential school of thought which rejects antiquity claims such as these and holds that India is a construct of the colonial and nationalist imagination. In his radical reinterpretation of India's past, Manu V. Devadevan moves away from these reifying assessments to examine the evolution of institutions, ideas and identities that are characterized, typically, as Indian. In lieu of endorsing their Indianness, he traces their emergence to specific conditions that developed in India between 600 and 1200 CE, a period which historians now call the 'early medieval'.

1 Introduction --
I Institutions --
2 State Formation and Its Structural Foundations --
3 From the Cult of Chivalry to the Cult of Personality --
The Seventh-Century Transformation in Pallava Statecraft --
4 Changes in Land Relations and the Changing Fortunes of the Cera State --
5 Temple and Territory in the Puri Jagannatha Imaginaire --
II Ideas --
6 Svayambuddha's Predilections --
The Epistemologies of Time and Knowledge --
7 Bharavi and the Creation of a Literary Paradigm --
8 Knowing and Being --
The Semantic Universe of the Kudiyaṭṭaṃ Theatre --
9 The Invention of Zero and Its Intellectual Legacy --
III Identities --
10 The Rise of Vernacular Languages --
A Case Study of Kannada --
11 Religious Identities in Times of Indumauḷi's Grief --
12 Caste, Gender, and the Landed Patriarchy --
13 The Making of Territorial Self-Consciousness (with Particular Reference to Kaliṅga) --
Bibliography --

No.

52160

価格：

5,473円