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Ideas and society in India from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries /

Ideas and Society in India discusses society and culture in India from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century as seen by medieval and early modern thinkers. These issues range from the nature of the state, relations between religious communities, doctrinal and ethical attitudes of reformists like t...

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Main Author: Vanina, Eugenia
Format: Printed Book
Published: Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1996.
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