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The idea of ancient India : Essays on religion, politics, and archaeology

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Publication details: New Delhi Sage Publications 2016Description: 438p xvISBN:
  • 9789351506461
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 934.000000 SIN
Contents:
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
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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