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History of Precolonial India: Issues and Debates

 
Hermann Kulke (Author) Bhairabi Prasad Sahu (Author) Parnal Chirmuley (Author)
Synopsis

A comprehensive and analytical assessment of the history of the Indian subcontinent until 1750 CE, History of Precolonial India situates Indian history in the wider context of its Asiatic background in an effort to accommodate the ongoing cultural transactions, intersections, and overlaps. This, it is hoped, will allow the reader to go beyond the usual brief flirtations with Asian history and appreciate the historical significance of the cultural and political interactions across the shifting and permeable regional borders.

Divided into three parts, the book begins with an exploration of ancient and medieval South Asian history. The second part focuses on the major debates in precolonial Indian history such as periodization, the Indo-Aryan problem, state formation, and the Indian Ocean trade. The final section comprises a thematically arranged and exhaustive bibliography.

In bringing out the changing historiographical contours through time, this volume focuses on facets of connected histories that went into the shaping of the cultural fabric of South Asia.

Contents: Part One: Historical Representations. 1. Introduction. 2. Early India. 3. The Early Historical Period. 4. The Early Medieval Times. 5. Late Medieval India: The Delhi Sultanate. 6. The Early Modern Period: India during the Mughal Rule. Part Two: Trends in Research. 7. Periodization. 8. Historiography. 9. The Indo-Aryans. 10. State and State Formation. 11. Cities and Urbanization. 12. Histories of Women. 13. India and Indian Ocean Studies. Part Three: Bibliography. Sources and Literature. Index.

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About the authors

Hermann Kulke

Hermann Kulke is Professor of South and Southeast Asian History in the Department of History, Kiel University. For 21 years he taught at the Southasia Institute of Heiderberg University. He was founder-member of the Orissa Research Project of the Southasia Institute (1970-5), Visiting Professor at Utkal University, Bhubaneswar (1978/9), Asiatic Society, Calcutta (1986) and Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi (1992). He is the author of Cidambaramahatmya (1970), Jagannatha Cult and Gajapaati Kingship (1979 both in German), co-author of A History of India (1986, with D. Rothermund), co-editor of The Cult of Jagannath and the Regional Tradition of Orissa (1978, with A. Eschmann and G.C. Tripathi) and of Hinduism Reconsidered (1989, 2nd ed. 1997), with G.D. Sontheimer) and editor of The State in India 1000-1600 (1993).

Bhairabi Prasad Sahu

Bhairabi Prasad Sahu teaches at the Department of History, University of Delhi. He is the author of From Hunters to Broders: Faunal Background of Early India (1988), and has edited Land System and Rural Society in Early India (1997).

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Bibliographic information

Title History of Precolonial India: Issues and Debates
Format Hardcover
Date published: 11.10.2018
Edition 1st ed.
Language: English
isbn 9780199491353
length 412p.
Subjects History