The changing gaze : Regions and the constructions of early India / by Bhairabi Prasad Sahu.

By:

Sahu, B. P, 1957-

Publication details: New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.Description: 340 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780198089193 (hbk.)

DDC classification:

934.0072 SAH

LOC classification:

Contents:

Table of contents; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: REGIONS AND THE CONSTRUCTIONS OF EARLY INDIA; PART I: EARLY PATTERNS OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE; 1. BRAHMANICAL CONCEPTION OF ORIGIN OF JATIS: A STUDY OF MANUSMRTI; 2. CONCEPTION OF THE KALI AGE IN EARLY INDIA: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE REGIONS; 3. VAR?A, JATI, AND THE SHAPING OF EARLY ORIYA SOCIETY; 4. PROFILING OF DAKSINA KOSALA: THE MAKING OF AN EARLY HISTORICAL SUBREGION? PART II: THE TRAJECTORY OF REGIONAL POLITIES; 5. WAYS OF SEEING: HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE STATE IN EARLY INDIA; 6. THE EARLY STATE IN ORISSA: FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF CHANGING FORMS OF PATRONAGE AND LEGITIMATION; 7. CHARACTERIZING EARLY MEDIEVAL INDIAN POLITY: THE CASE OF DAKSINA KOSALA AND BEYOND; 8. LEGITIMATION, IDEOLOGY, AND STATE IN EARLY INDIA; PART III: THE SHAPING OF REGIONAL RURAL SOCIETIES; 9. MAPPING THE PATTERNS OF REGIONAL LAND SYSTEMS AND RURAL SOCIETY; 10. AGRARIAN CHANGES AND THE PEASANTRY IN EARLY MEDIEVAL ORISSA; 11. SHIFTING THE GAZE: FACETS OF SUB-REGIONAL AGRARIAN ECONOMIES; 12. DISSENT AND PROTEST IN EARLY INDIAN SOCIETIES: SOME HISTORIOGRAPHIC REMARKS; INDEX

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Table of contents;
PREFACE;
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS;
INTRODUCTION:
REGIONS AND THE CONSTRUCTIONS OF EARLY INDIA;
PART I: EARLY PATTERNS OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE;
1. BRAHMANICAL CONCEPTION OF ORIGIN OF JATIS: A STUDY OF MANUSMRTI;
2. CONCEPTION OF THE KALI AGE IN EARLY INDIA: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE REGIONS;
3. VAR?A, JATI, AND THE SHAPING OF EARLY ORIYA SOCIETY;
4. PROFILING OF DAKSINA KOSALA: THE MAKING OF AN EARLY HISTORICAL SUBREGION? PART II: THE TRAJECTORY OF REGIONAL POLITIES;
5. WAYS OF SEEING: HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE STATE IN EARLY INDIA;
6. THE EARLY STATE IN ORISSA: FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF CHANGING FORMS OF PATRONAGE AND LEGITIMATION;
7. CHARACTERIZING EARLY MEDIEVAL INDIAN POLITY: THE CASE OF DAKSINA KOSALA AND BEYOND;
8. LEGITIMATION, IDEOLOGY, AND STATE IN EARLY INDIA; PART III: THE SHAPING OF REGIONAL RURAL SOCIETIES;
9. MAPPING THE PATTERNS OF REGIONAL LAND SYSTEMS AND RURAL SOCIETY;
10. AGRARIAN CHANGES AND THE PEASANTRY IN EARLY MEDIEVAL ORISSA;
11. SHIFTING THE GAZE: FACETS OF SUB-REGIONAL AGRARIAN ECONOMIES;
12. DISSENT AND PROTEST IN EARLY INDIAN SOCIETIES: SOME HISTORIOGRAPHIC REMARKS;
INDEX

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