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100			_aUpinder Singh
245	1	0	_aThe idea of ancient India : _cby Upinder Singh _bessays on religion, politics, and archaeology /
246			_a2nd ed
260			_aNew Delhi _bSAGE Publications _c2016
270			_aB1/I-1 Mohan Cooperative Industrial Area, Mathura Road _bNew Delhi _e110044
300			_axIii,439p. : _c23cm(Hb) _bill.
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505			_a Contextualizing inscriptions -- Sanchi : the history of the patronage of an ancient Buddhist establishment -- Nagarjunakonda : Buddhism in the "City of Victory" -- Cults and shrines in early historical Mathura (c. 200 BC to AD 200) -- Early medieval Orissa : the data and the debate -- II. Archaeologists and the modern histories of ancient sites -- Archaeologists and architectural scholars in 19th century India -- Amaravati : the dismembering of the Mahacaitya (1797-1886) -- Buddhism, archaeology, and the nation : Nagarjunakonda (1926-2006) -- Exile and return : the reinvention of Buddhism and Buddhist sites in modern India -- III. The intersection of political ideas and practice -- Governing the state and the self : political philosophy and practice in the edicts of Asoka -- Politics, violence, and war in Kamandaka's Nitisara -- The power of a poet : kingship, empire, and war in Kalidasa's Raghuvaṃśa -- IV. Looking beyond India to Asia -- Gifts from other lands : Southeast Asian religious endowments in India -- Politics, piety, and patronage : the Burmese engagement with Bodhgaya.
520			_a "This book engages with some of the most important issues, debates, and methodologies in the writings of ancient Indian history. Thematically structured into four sections, it critically addresses how the material remains of India's early past were discovered and understood in colonial and post-colonial times. The first section highlights the importance of a thorough empirical approach for understanding the process of social history and early medieval state formation. The second connects ancient and modern India, based extensively on archival sources. The third and fourth sections emphasize the important issue of ancient Indian intellectual history, underlining the significance of reconstructing the intellectual landscape of ancient India through a sensitive and yet critical historicization of its texts and inscriptions"--Provided by publisher.
650			_aArchaeology and religion _zIndia.
650			_aArchaeology _xPolitical aspects _zIndia.
650			_a Buddhism _zIndia _xHistory.
650			_aExcavations (Archaeology) _zIndia.
650			_aSacred space _zIndia.
650			_a Inscriptions, Indic.
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