Rethinking early medieval India : a reader
"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."--From publisher description
Print Book, English, 2011
Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2011