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100			_aSingh Upinder
245			_aThe idea of ancient India : Essays on religion, politics, and archaeology
260			_aNew Delhi _bSage Publications _c2016
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505			_aTable 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
650			_a1. Sacred Space - India2. Antiquities - Archaeology - Political Aspects3. Buddhism - Excavations - Inscriptions
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