The Idea of Ancient India: Essays on Religion, Politics and Archaeology
Book Details
Author(s)
Upinder Singh
Publisher
SAGE India
ISBN / ASIN
9351506460
ISBN-13
9789351506461
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#149,253
Category
Archaeology
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Description
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- I. Religion and Region
- Sanchi: The History of the Patronage of an Ancient Buddhist Establishment
- Nagarjunakonda: Buddhism in the ‘City of Victory’
- Cults and Shrines in Early Historical Mathura (c. 200 BC to AD 200)
- Early Medieval Orissa: The Data and the Debate
- II. Archaeologists And The Modern Histories Of Ancient Sites
- Archaeologists and Architectural Scholars in 19th-Century India
- Amaravati: The Dismembering of the Mahacaitya (1797–1886)
- Buddhism, Archaeology, and the Nation: Nagarjunakonda (1926–2006)
- Exile and Return: The Reinvention of Buddhism and Buddhist Sites in Modern India
- III. The Intersection Of Political Ideas And Practice
- Governing the State and the Self: Political Philosophy and Practice in the Edicts of Aśoka
- Politics, Violence, and War in Kamandaka's Nītisara
- The Power of a Poet: Kingship, Empire, and War in Kalidasa’s Raghuvamsa
- IV. Looking Beyond India To Asia
- Gifts from Other Lands: Southeast Asian Religious Endowments in India
- Politics, Piety, and Patronage: The Burmese Engagement with Bodhgaya
- Index
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