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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.
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The Making of Early Medieval India
March 6, 1997, Oxford University Press, USA
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The making of early medieval India
1994, Oxford University Press
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0195634152 9780195634150
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