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The idea of ancient India : essays on religion, politics, and archaeology /
"This book engages with some of the most important issues, debates, and methodologies in the writings of ancient Indian history. Thematically structured into four sections, it critically addresses how the material remains of India's early past were discovered and understood in colonial and...
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| Materyal Türü: | Printed Book |
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New Delhi:
Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd,
2016.
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| Online Erişim: | https://www.amazon.in/Idea-Ancient-India-Religion-Archaeology/dp/9351506460#reader_9351506460 https://books.google.co.in/books?id=zmAlDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false |
İçindekiler:
- I. Contextualizing inscriptions
- 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 Asoka
- Politics, violence, and war in Kamandaka's Nitisara
- The power of a poet : kingship, empire, and war in Kalidasa's Raghuvaṃśa
- 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.