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Singh Upinder

The idea of ancient India : Essays on religion, politics, and archaeology - New Delhi Sage Publications 2016 - 438p xv

Table of contents
Introduction;
I. Religion and Region;
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 Raghuva?sa;
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;
Index

ISBN: 9789351506461

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Sacred Space - India2. Antiquities - Archaeology - Political Aspects3. Buddhism - Excavations - Inscriptions

Dewey Class. No.: 934.000000 / SIN