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020 _a9780198089193 (hbk.)
020 _a0198089198 (hbk.)
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082 0 4 _a934.0072
_bSAH/C
100 1 _aSahu, Bhairabi Prasad.
245 1 4 _aThe changing gaze: regions and the constructions of early India/
_cBhairabi Prasad Sahu
260 _aNew Delhi ;
_bOxford University Press,
_c2013.
300 _axiii, 340 p. :
_bmap ;
_c23 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: Regions and the Constructions of Early India. -- Part 1: Early patterns of social and cultural change. Brahmanical Conception of Origin of Jatis: A Study of Manusmrti ; Conception of the Kali Age in Early India: Perspectives from the Regions ; Varṇa, Jati, and the Shaping of Early Oriya Society ; Profiling of Daksina Kosala: The Making of an Early Historical Subregion?. -- Part II: The trajectory of regional polities. Ways of Seeing: History and Historiography of the State in Early India ; The Early State in Orissa: From the Perspective of Changing Forms of Patronage and Legitimation ; Characterizing Early Medieval Indian Polity: The Case of Daksina Kosala and Beyond ; Legitimation, Ideology, and State in Early India. -- Part III: The shaping of regional rural societies. Mapping the Patterns of Regional Land Systems and Rural Society ; Agrarian Changes and the Peasantry in Early Medieval Orissa ; Shifting the Gaze: Facets of Sub-regional Agrarian Economies ; Dissent and Protest in Early Indian Societies: Some Historiographic Remarks.
651 0 _aIndia
_xHistoriography.
651 0 _aIndia
_xHistory
651 0 _aIndia
_xCivilization
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