The Idea of Ancient India Essays on Religion, Politics and Archaeology
- New Delhi Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd 2016
- 439p
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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Archaeology Archaeology and Religion Archaeology- Political Aspects Buddhism - India Sacred Space