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This book looks at the ways in which archaeological methods have
been used in debates concerning the early medieval and medieval
periods in South Asia. Despite the incorporation and use of
archaeological data to corroborate historical narratives, the
theories and methods of archaeology are largely ignored in and
excluded from the dominating, institutionalized, and hegemonic
disciplinary discourses. The volume offers contesting insights,
polemical narratives, and new data from archaeological contexts to
initiate a debate on many foundational premises of archaeological
and historical narratives. It focuses on the much-neglected region
of the Eastern Ganga-Brahmaputra Basin as a spatial frame to do
this and studies themes such as spatial and temporal scales of
concepts and methods, multi-scaler factors and processes of
continuity and changes, the settlement archaeology of the alluvial
landscape, changing patterns of agrarian transformation, and
material cultures, including coins, inscriptions, pottery, and
sculptures, in their contexts in sub-regional, regional, and
supra-regional intersections. Dedicated to historian Brajadulal
Chattopadhyaya, this volume presents a crucial and unprecedented
intervention in the study of the early medieval and the medieval
periods. It will be useful for scholars and researchers of
archaeology, ancient history, medieval history, water history,
earth sciences, palaeoecology, historical ecology, epigraphy, art
history, material culture studies, Indian history, and South Asian
studies in general.
1) This is one of the first handbook to look at the state formation
in pre-modern India. 2) It contains papers written by renowned
historians like Harry Falk, Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya,
Günther-Dietz Sontheimer, Upinder Singh, Daud Ali, and Romila
Thapar. 3) This handbook will be of interest to departments of
South Asian history across UK.
1) This is one of the first handbook to look at the state formation
in pre-modern India. 2) It contains papers written by renowned
historians like Harry Falk, Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya,
Gunther-Dietz Sontheimer, Upinder Singh, Daud Ali, and Romila
Thapar. 3) This handbook will be of interest to departments of
South Asian history across UK.
This book is the companion volume to A People's History of India 6,
which gave an account of the political and economic history of the
post-Mauryan period from c. 200 B.C. to A.D. 300. The present
volume deals with the important aspects of the society and culture
of the same period. It traces the diffusion of the caste system and
describes its detailed codification. The major changes in religion,
notably the emergence of Mahayana Buddhism and Bhakti in
Brahmanism, are surveyed in depth. The reader will also find much
that is fresh and enlightening in the accounts of sculpture,
languages, and literature, in all of which fields the period saw
much innovation and change.
Festschrift honoring Partha Sarathi Gupta, Indian historian;
contributed articles on Indian historiography.
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