The Idea of Ancient India Essays on Religion, Politics and Archaeology

By:

Singh, Upinder

Contributor(s):

Singh, Upinder

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd 2016Description: 439pISBN:

9789351506461

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

R23 SI643

Partial contents:

1. Religion and Region ............1 Sanchi: The History of the Patronage of an Ancient buddhist Establishement ...........3 Nagarjunakonda: Buddhism in the City of Victory ............43 Cults and Shrines in Early Historical Mathura .........73 Early medieval Orissa: the Data and the Debate .........100 2. Archaeologists and the MOdern histories of Ancient sites .....121 Archaeologists and architectural Scholars in 19th Century India ..........123 Amaravati : The dismembering of the Mahacaitya ........147 Buddhism, Archaeology, and the Nation: Nagarjunakonda (1926-2006)..............191 Exile and return : The reinvention of Buddhism and buddhist sites in Modern India ...............222 3. The intersection of political Ideas and Practice...........271 Governing the state and the self: Political Philosophy and Practice in the edicts of Asoka ..............273 Politics, Violence, and War in Kamandaka`s Nitisara..........304 The power of a poet :Kingship, Empire, and War in Kalidasa`s Raghuvamsa..........342 4. Looking beyond India to Asia ...............369 Gifts from other Lands : Southest Asian Religious Endowments in India ..................371 politics, Piety, and patronage: The burmese engagement with bodhgaya .........394

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includes index and biblioraphy

1. Religion and Region ............1
Sanchi: The History of the Patronage of an Ancient buddhist Establishement ...........3
Nagarjunakonda: Buddhism in the City of Victory ............43
Cults and Shrines in Early Historical Mathura .........73
Early medieval Orissa: the Data and the Debate .........100
2. Archaeologists and the MOdern histories of Ancient sites .....121
Archaeologists and architectural Scholars in 19th Century India ..........123
Amaravati : The dismembering of the Mahacaitya ........147
Buddhism, Archaeology, and the Nation: Nagarjunakonda (1926-2006)..............191
Exile and return : The reinvention of Buddhism and buddhist sites in Modern India ...............222
3. The intersection of political Ideas and Practice...........271
Governing the state and the self: Political Philosophy and Practice in the edicts of Asoka ..............273
Politics, Violence, and War in Kamandaka`s Nitisara..........304
The power of a poet :Kingship, Empire, and War in Kalidasa`s Raghuvamsa..........342
4. Looking beyond India to Asia ...............369
Gifts from other Lands : Southest Asian Religious Endowments in India ..................371
politics, Piety, and patronage: The burmese engagement with bodhgaya .........394

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