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| Material Type: | Conference publication, Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Masaaki Kimura; Akio Tanabe |
| ISBN: | 0195672771 9780195672770 |
| OCLC Number: | 65182328 |
| Description: | viii, 325 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Section 1. Formation and concept of the state. State and kingship in the period of the Sixteen Mahājanapadas in Ancient North India / Genʼichi Yamazaki ; The integrative model of the state formation in early medieval India : some historiographic remarks / Hermann Kulke ; The social background of state formation in India / Masaaki Kimura -- Section 2. Forms and process of the state. Doṣa (sin)-prāyaścitta (penance) : the predominating ideology in the medieval Deccan / Hiroyuki Kotani ; The coin of the realm : (un)making polities in late pre-colonial South-Asia / Sanjay Subrahmanyam ; The mirasi system as social grammar : state, local society, and raiyat in eighteenth-nineteenth century South India / Tsukasa Mizushima ; Early modernity and colonial transformation : rethinking the role of the king in eighteenth and nineteenth century Orissa, India / Akio Tanabe ; The ethnographic state / Nicholas B. Dirks -- Section 3. Ideas and problematics of the state. The secularity of the state / Peter van der Veer ; Hindu priests under secular government : a case study of the Nataraja Temple at Chidambaram, South India / Masakazu Tanaka ; Democratic culture and images of the state : India's unending ambivalence / Ashis Nandy ; The Indian state in the evolving international order / Matin Zuberi. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Masaaki Kimura and Akio Tanabe. |
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Abstract:
Covers the period prior to 997 A.D. to 20th century; transcript of papers presented at an international workshop held in Kyoto from 2 to 5 December 1999.
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