TY - BOOK TI - The feudal order: state, society, and ideology in early medieval India SN - 8173042292 U1 - 930 PY - 2000/// CY - New Delhi PB - Manohar KW - Feudalism KW - India KW - History KW - Social Conflict KW - Social Conditions N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [497]-526) and index; TRANSITION TO FEUDALISM The Kali Age: A Period of Social Crisis /R. S. Sharma -- The Accounts of the Kali Age and the Social Transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages /B.N.S. Yadava -- The Prevalence of Private Landholding in the Lower Kaveri Valley in the Late Cola Period and its Historical Implications /Noboru Karashima PART II FEUDAL STATE AND SOCIETY The Segmentary State and the Indian Experience /R.S. Sharma The Role of Nadu in the Socio-Political Structure of South India (cad 600-1200) /Kesavan Veluthat -- State Formation in a Peripheral Region: The Case of Early Medieval Chamba /D.N. Jha -- Feudal Elements in the Caulukya State: An Attempt at Relocation /Vishwa Mohan Jha -- The Problem of the Emergence of Feudal Relatons in Early India /B.N.S. Yadava -- Agrarian Growth and Social Conflicts in Early India /R.N. Nandi -- Monetization in a Coastal Economy: The Case of Konkan under the Silaharas /K.M. Shrimali PART III FEUDAL IDEOLOGY Bhakti Movement in South India /M.G.S. Narayanan and Kesavan Veluthat /Mahadana: The Dynamics of Gift-economy and the Feudal Milieu /Vijay Nath -- Material Milieu of Tantricism /R.S. Sharma -- The Feudal Mind /R.S. Sharma -- Origin of the Virasaiva Movement /R.N. Nandi -- Art under Feudalism in India (c. ad 500-1300) /Devangana Desai ER -