Author: Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 270
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195640764
Description
The essays assembled here attempt to explore the processes and nature of change in Indian society over a period of about six hundred years, roughly between the seventh and the thirteenth centuries.
The notion of change articulated in these essays marks a radical departure from what exists in the current historiography of the period studied by the author. Change here is shown as being represented by processes of progressive transformation, and not - as in the many available visions of the period - by the breakdown of an earlier social order.
The introductory essay provides an overview of historiography, as well as of the major directions of change.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
CHAPTER I
Introduction : The Making of Early Medieval India
CHAPTER II
Irrigation in Early Medieval Rajasthan
CHAPTER III
Origin of the Rajputs : The Political, Economic and Social Processes in Early Medieval Rajasthan
CHAPTER IV
Markets and Merchants in Early Medieval Rajasthan
CHAPTER V
Early Memorial Stones of Rajasthan : A Preliminary Analysis of Their Inscriptions
CHAPTER VI
Trade and Urban Centres in Early Medieval North India
CHAPTER VII
Urban Centres in Early Medieval Indian : An Overview
CHAPTER VIII
Political Processes and the Structure of Policy in Early Medieval Indian
CHAPTER IX
Religion in a Royal Household : A Study of Some Aspects of Rajasekhara Karpuramanjari
Bibliography
Index