Research Catalog

Title

The making of early medieval India / Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya.

Author

Chattopadhyaya, Brajadulal, 1939-2022

Publication

Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Details

Description

x, 270 p. : maps; 22 cm.

Summary

"The Making of Early Medieval India is a collection of essays which together seek to explore the processes and nature of change in Indian society over a period of about six hundred years, approximately between the seventh and the thirteenth centuries. The notion of change articulated in these essays marks a radical departure from what exists in the current historiography of the period. Change here is shown as being represented by processes of progressive transformation, and not - as in the available visions of the period - by the breakdown of an earlier social order. Laying methodological stress on identifying and analysing major historical processes at a pan-Indian level, as well as in relation to different territorial segments, the essays thus provide an alternative perspective on the making of early medieval society in India." "The empirical material which is examined in depth in these essays relates to diverse themes: irrigation; urbanization; the formation of a dominant ruling caste and political processes; and the structure of polity in general. The Introductory essay provides an overview of historiography, as well as of the major directions of its change. It makes cross-regional references in order to underline the fact that comparable processes of change were in operation in all parts of the country."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• 1000-1765
• Geschichte 1000-1500
• India > History > 1000-1765

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Maps on lining papers.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-252) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction : the making of early medieval India -- 2. Irrigation in early medieval Rajasthan -- 3. Origin of the Rajputs : the political, economic and social processes in early medieval Rajasthan -- 4. Markets and merchants in early medieval Rajasthan -- 5. Early memorial stones of Rajasthan : a preliminary analysis of their inscriptions -- 6. Trade and urban centres in early medieval North India -- 7. Urban centres in early medieval India : an overview -- 8. Political processes and the structure of polity in early medieval India -- 9. Religion in a royal household : a study of some aspects of Rajasekhara's Karpuramanjari.

ISBN

0195634152 :

LCCN

^^^94904610^

OCLC

31166756

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library