TY - BOOK AU - Veluthat, Kesavan AU - Veluthat,Kesavan TI - The Early Medieval in South India SN - 0198069146 U1 - R65.3 PY - 2010/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press N1 - 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 ER -