TY - BOOK AU - Roy, Kumkum AU - Roy,Kumkum TI - The Power of Gender and the Gender of Power: Explorations in Early Indian History SN - 0198066767 U1 - R40 PY - 2010/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press N1 - includes index and biblioraphy; 1. Towards Histories of Gender relations Of Theras and Theris .......17 Women and Men donors at Sanchi ..........38 The other Ksetra ..........53 Defining the Household ........70 Engendering the Urban world .....88 Re-presenting the courtesanal Tradition .........111 Representations of Gender relations in Early India .........132 Turbulent waves ........142 The politics of Reproduction in early India ................165 Gender Relations during the First millennium ...........195 2. Interrogating textual Traditions Marriage as communication ........223 Legitimation and the brahmanical tradition .............241 Invoking authority ..........251 The King`s Household ..........271 Justice in the Jatakas .................290 Domesticating the King ...........311 Unravelling the Kamasutra ..........324 The making of a Mandala ...............343 The artful biographer ............358 ER -