The society of traditional India is frequently characterized as static and dominated by caste. This study challenges older interpretations, arguing that medieval India was actually a time of dynamic change and fluid social identities. Using records of religious endowments from Andhra Pradesh, author Cynthia Talbot reconstructs a regional society of the precolonial past as it existed in practice.
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"Talbot offers an important critique of existing scholarship in medieval Indian history and suggests promising directions for reenvisioning this history."--Asia
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Cynthia Talbot is at University of Texas, Austin.
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Although stone inscriptions can be found in various areas of the subcontinent from the third century B.C.E. onward, they were most abundantly produced in South India between approximately 1000 and 1650 C.E. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
epigraphic activity, inscriptional corpus, epigraphic production, temple patronage, epigraphic language, northern coastal districts, temple donors, warrior lineages, ritual sovereignty, minor temples, donative inscriptions, religious patronage, brahman villages, agrarian expansion, segmentary state, religious gifts, unpublished inscriptions, medieval inscriptions, political intermediaries, princely lineages, elephant corps, political subordinates, status titles, agrarian frontier, agrarian settlement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kakatiya Andhra, South India, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Prataparudra Caritramu, Kakatiya Prataparudra, Krishna River, Guntur District, Parabrahma Sastry, Pratáparudra Caritramu, Krishnadeva Raya, Somasekhara Sarma, Telugu Historical Memory, Gangaya Sahini, Ramachandra Rao, Kapaya Nayaka, West Godavari, Narayana Rao, Prolaya Nayaka, Recherla Nayakas, Vira Balanjya, Gundaya Nayaka, Kakatiya Ganapati, Nalgonda District, North India New!
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Although stone inscriptions can be found in various areas of the subcontinent from the third century B.C.E. onward, they were most abundantly produced in South India between approximately 1000 and 1650 C.E. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
epigraphic activity, inscriptional corpus, epigraphic production, temple patronage, epigraphic language, northern coastal districts, temple donors, warrior lineages, ritual sovereignty, minor temples, donative inscriptions, religious patronage, brahman villages, agrarian expansion, segmentary state, religious gifts, unpublished inscriptions, medieval inscriptions, political intermediaries, princely lineages, elephant corps, political subordinates, status titles, agrarian frontier, agrarian settlement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kakatiya Andhra, South India, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Prataparudra Caritramu, Kakatiya Prataparudra, Krishna River, Guntur District, Parabrahma Sastry, Pratáparudra Caritramu, Krishnadeva Raya, Somasekhara Sarma, Telugu Historical Memory, Gangaya Sahini, Ramachandra Rao, Kapaya Nayaka, West Godavari, Narayana Rao, Prolaya Nayaka, Recherla Nayakas, Vira Balanjya, Gundaya Nayaka, Kakatiya Ganapati, Nalgonda District, North India New!
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- Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia (South Asia Seminar) by Carol A. Breckenridge in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Cult of Jagannath and the Regional Tradition of Orissa (reprint 2005) by Eschmann in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Studies of South India: An Anthology of Recent Research and Scholarship by Robert Eric Frykenberg in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Syllables of Sky: Studies in South Indian Civilization in Honour of Velcheru Narayana Rao by David Shulman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Castes and Tribes of Southern India by Edgar Thurston on page 205, and Back Matter
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- A Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761: Eight Indian Lives (The New Cambridge History of India) by Richard M. Eaton on page 50, and Back Matter
- Connected Places: Region, Pilgrimage, and Geographical Imagination in India (Religion/Culture/Critique) by Anne Feldhaus in Back Matter
- India before Europe by Catherine B. Asher in Front Matter
- Poetics of Conduct: Oral Narrative and Moral Being in a South Indian Town by Leela Prasad in Back Matter
- Slavery and South Asian History by Indrani Chatterjee on page 59
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