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Author: Rajan Gurukkal
Publisher: OUP India
Published: 2012-10-18
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0198089392
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book presents an incisive analysis of social formations in present-day Tamil Nadu and Kerala from pre-historic times to early medieval period. It examines the economy, technology, and the process of state formation to understand the transformation from agro-pastoral to agrarian social formation.
Author: Romila Thapar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999-11-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 0199087652
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a concise collection of lectures which discuss the nature of early Indian society during the mid-first millennium BC and relate it to the ancient Indian historical tradition in its earliest forms. It also looks at the particular character of social formations, their genesis, and continuity as part of the later Indian social landscape. Examining the social and political formulations of the period, this volume analyses the transformation of lineage-based societies into state formulations. It considers the migration and arrival of the monarchies in the middle Ganga valley, where the evolution of these societies resulted in the formation of a state. It provides insights into environmental influences on settlements, the particularities of caste, the role of rituals, and the interaction of ideology with these changes. The volume presents an account of the interplay of a range of variables in state formation.
Author: Kesavan Veluthat
Publisher: Oxford India Paperbacks
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780198069140
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Exploring the notion of early medieval , this book re-examines and presents an alternative history of south India. It covers problems and history of Tamilakam in general and early medieval Karnataka and Kerala in particular.
Author: Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1843311321
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A focal study of the methodological changes that confront historians of pre-colonial India.
Author: Rajan Gurukkal
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-10-16
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 0199095809
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Who decides what should be recognized as knowledge? What forces engender knowledge? How do certain forms of it acquire precedence over the rest, and why? Exploring these fundamental questions, this book provides an introductory outline of the vast history of knowledge systems under the broad categories of European and non-European, specifically Indian. It not only traces ontology and epistemology in spatio-temporal terms, but also contextualizes methodological development by comparing Indian and European systems of knowledge and their methods of production as well as techniques ensuring reliability. Knowledge cannot have a history of its own, independent of social history. Therefore, using a vast array of sources, including Greek, Prakrit, Chinese, and Arab texts, the book situates the history of knowledge production within the matrix of multiple socio-economic and politico-cultural systems. Further, the volume also analyses the process of the rise of science and new science and reviews speculative thoughts about the dynamics of the subatomic micro-universe as well as the mechanics of the galactic macro-universe.
Author: Ryosuke Furui
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2019-07-02
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1000084809
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume explores the process of social changes which unfolded in rural society of early medieval Bengal, especially the formation of stratified land relations and occupational groups which later got systematised as jātis. One of the first books to systematically reconstruct the early history of the region, this book presents a history of the economy, polity, law, and social order of early medieval Bengal through a comprehensive study of land and society. It traces the changing power relations among constituents of rural society and political institutions, and unravels the contradictions growing among them. The author describes the changing forms of agrarian development which were deeply associated with these overarching structures and offers an in-depth analysis of a wide range of textual sources in Sanskrit and other languages, especially contemporary inscriptions pertaining to Bengal. The volume will be an essential resource for researchers and academics interested in the history of Bengal, and the social and economic history of early South Asia.
Author: Radhika Seshan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2018-06-27
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0429946309
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The idea of transitions in Indian history emerged early when the term ‘transition’ denoted shifts from one period to another. The notion of transition itself has moved beyond being primarily economic to include dimensions of society, culture and ideology. This volume brings together scholarly works that re-examine and re-define the concept of transition by looking into a range of subjects including religion, culture, gender, caste and community networks, maritime and mercantile modes, ideas of nationalism and historiographies across geographical and temporal settings. With contributions by leading scholars from South Asia, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of ancient history, modern Indian history, sociology and social anthropology, and South Asian studies.
Author: Noboru Karashima
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This omnibus edition of South Indian History and Society and Towards a New Formation presents a fascinating perspective on the development of South Indian society during the Chola period, which finally brought a new social formation into South India under the Vijayanagara nayaka rule towards the end of the fifteenth century.
Author: Rajan Gurukkal
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780199460854
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume is a rethinking of the classical eastern Mediterranean overseas exchange relations with the Indian sub-continent. Characterizing the nature of exchanges in detail against extant sources and theories, the book maintains that the expression, 'Indo-Roman trade' is a misnomer in historiography. It argues that the chieftains and merchants in the sub-continent had neither institutional nor technological means to indulge in contemporary overseas trade, a heavily document based enterprise. It was not necessary either.
