The Early Medieval in South India
- Oxford Oxford University Press 2010
- 356p
includes index and biblioraphy
1. Thamilakam Into the medieval - and out of it.......19 The temple in medieval south India ........61 Land rights and social stratification ......83 Labour rent and produce rent ......100 Nadu in the socio-political Structure ......109 2. Medieval kerala The keralolpatti as history ......129 Epigraphy in the historiography of Kerala ........147 Literacy and communication in pre-modern kerala .........168 The king as lord and overlord..........183 A capital city as a sacred centre .........229 Medieval kerala : State and society ........249 Landlordism in medieval kerala .......277 Evolution of a Regional Identity ...........295 3. In the neighbourhood: Early medieval Karnataka Velevali in Karnataka .............315 Landed magnates as state agents ..............325