Aspects of Rural Settlements and Rural Society in Early Medieval India
Author: Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13:
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Land System and Rural Society in Early India
Author: Bhairabi Prasad Sahu
Publisher: Manohar Publishers
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9788173041921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContributions In The Volume Highlight The Growth And Changing Contours Of Historiography With Regard To The Agrarian History Of Early India. The Papers Deal With Aspects Of Rural Settlements, The Concept Of Village Community, The Problem Of Ownership Of Land, Agrarian Change, The Structure Of Rural Sociology And Rural Unrest.
Studying Early India
Author: Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1843311321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA focal study of the methodological changes that confront historians of pre-colonial India.
The Archaeology of Early Medieval and Medieval South Asia
Author: Swadhin Sen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-11-30
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1000780759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
A Sourcebook of Indian Civilization
Author: Niharranjan Ray
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 698
ISBN-13: 9788125018711
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Sourcebook of Indian Civilization aims at familiarising its readers with the various aspects that go into the making of the history of Indian civilisation. The arrangement of the material in the chapters and selections conform to a rationally conceived and planned scheme of history. The contents of the book presents an extensive view of Indian life and thought.
A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India
Author: Upinder Singh
Publisher: Pearson Education India
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 708
ISBN-13: 9788131716779
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA History of Ancient and Early Medieval India is the most comprehensive textbook yet for undergraduate and postgraduate students. It introduces students to original sources such as ancient texts, artefacts, inscriptions and coins, illustrating how historians construct history on their basis. Its clear and balanced explanation of concepts and historical debates enables students to independently evaluate evidence, arguments and theories. This remarkable textbook allows the reader to visualize and understand the rich and varied remains of India s ancient past, transforming the process of discovering that past into an exciting experience.
The Routledge Handbook of the State in Premodern India
Author: Hermann Kulke
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-01-13
Total Pages: 594
ISBN-13: 1000485145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook presents a multilayered and multidimensional history of state formation in premodern India. It explores dense and rich local and subregional historiography from the mid-first millennium BC to the eighteenth century in South Asia. Shifting the focus away from economic and political factors, this handbook revises the conventional understanding of states and empires and locates them in their quotidian conduct and activity on socio-cultural and concomitant factors. Comprehensive in scope, this handbook addresses a range of themes connected with the idea of state formation in the subcontinent. It includes discussions and debates on ritual practices and the Brahmanical order in early India; the Delhi Sultanate and role of Sultans among the Hindu kings; the cosmopolitan ‘Islamicate’ cultural influences on Puranic Hinduism; cultural background of the Mughal state. The handbook examines new questions and ideologies of state formation, such as: · facets of violence and resistance; · the significance of the autonomous spaces and forests; · regional elites, including ‘Little kings’; tribal background of some famous cults; · trade and maritime commerce; · royal patronage, courtly manners, lineage formation; · imperial architecture, monuments, and temple, among others. Featuring case studies from different part of the India subcontinent, and with contributions by renowned historians, this authoritative handbook will be an indispensable reading for teachers, scholars, and students of early India, medieval India, premodern India, South Asian history, Asian history, historiography, economic history, historical sociology, and South Asia studies.
Sociology and Social Anthropology in India
Author: Yogesh Atal
Publisher: Pearson Education India
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 622
ISBN-13: 9788131720349
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Indian Council of Social Science Research, the premier organization for social science research in India, conducts periodic surveys in the major disciplines of the social sciences to assess disciplinary developments as well as to identify gaps in research in these disciplines.
A Social History of Early India
Author: Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
Publisher: Pearson Education India
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9788131719589
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The Economic History of India
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2023-07-30
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 9356401888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe economic history of early India is a rich and diverse area of study, covering agricultural developments, trade, markets, occupation and professional groups, urbanization and the institutions that govern the economy. Recent research has expanded our understanding of the processes of transformation of the economy in different temporal contexts within the Indian sub-continent. They have particularly led us to explore connected histories given the trans-continental trading networks and movements of people from very early times. This volume seeks to draw attention to this vast and unexplored terrain in the economic history of early India, by bringing together essays on a new and rich historiography. Essays in the volume cover neglected regions, economic processes and structures. Scholars have looked at questions of settlements, crops that were cultivated and market orientation. Essays cover material culture and provide insights into how early Indians lived, what kinds of activities they were engaged in, and how they organised their production activities within and outside domestic spaces. Further the volume bring new insights on hierarchy of settlement types, nature of exchange, and the significance of a nodal site in exchange networks. Maritime history as well as the understanding of trade in its varied forms and manifestations are covered in several essays.
