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020 $a9789351506461$q(hardback ;$qalkaline paper)
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035 $a(OCoLC)928888880
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050 00 $aDS419$b.S53 2016
082 00 $a934$223
100 1 $aSingh, Upinder,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe Idea of Ancient India :$bEssays on Religion, Politics, and Archaeology /$cUpinder Singh.
264 1 $aLos Angeles :$bSAGE Publications,$c2016.
300 $axlii, 439 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 2 $a"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 post-colonial times. The first section highlights the importance of a thorough empirical approach for understanding the process of social history and early medieval state formation. The second connects ancient and modern India, based extensively on archival sources. The third and fourth sections emphasize the important issue of ancient Indian intellectual history, underlining the significance of reconstructing the intellectual landscape of ancient India through a sensitive and yet critical historicization of its texts and inscriptions"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aI. 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.
651 0 $aIndia$xAntiquities.
650 0 $aArchaeology and religion$zIndia.
650 0 $aArchaeology$xPolitical aspects$zIndia.
651 0 $aIndia$xHistory$yTo 324 B.C.$vSources.
651 0 $aIndia$xHistory$y324 B.C.-1000 A.D.$vSources.
650 0 $aBuddhism$zIndia$xHistory.
650 0 $aExcavations (Archaeology)$zIndia.
650 0 $aSacred space$zIndia.
650 0 $aInscriptions, Indic.
651 0 $aIndia$xIntellectual life.
650 7 $aAntiquities.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00810745
650 7 $aArchaeology and religion.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00813007
650 7 $aArchaeology$xPolitical aspects.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00812977
650 7 $aBuddhism.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00840028
650 7 $aExcavations (Archaeology)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00917564
650 7 $aInscriptions, Indic.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00973888
650 7 $aIntellectual life.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00975769
650 7 $aSacred space.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01103191
651 7 $aIndia.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01210276
648 7 $aTo 1000$2fast
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655 7 $aSources.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423900
852 00 $bglx$hDS419$i.S53 2016