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The Idea of Ancient India : Essays on Religion, Politics, and Archaeology.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi : SAGE Publications, 2016.Description: 1 online resource (483 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789351506454
  • 9351506452
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Idea of Ancient India : Essays on Religion, Politics, and Archaeology.DDC classification:
  • 934
LOC classification:
  • DS419 .S53 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover ; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Introduction; SECTION I Religion and Region; 1 Sanchi: The History of the Patronage of an Ancient Buddhist Establishment; 2 Nagarjunakonda: Buddhism in the 'City of Victory'; 3 Cults and Shrines in Early Historical Mathura (c. 200 BC-AD 200); 4 Early Medieval Orissa: The Data and the Debate; SECTION II Archaeologists and the Modern Histories of Ancient Sites; 5 Archaeologists and Architectural Scholars in 19th Century India; 6 Amaravati: The Dismembering ofthe Mah�acaitya (1797-1886).
7 Buddhism, Archaeology, and the Nation: Nagarjunakonda (1926-2006)8 Exile and Return: The Reinvention of Buddhism and Buddhist Sites in Modern India; SECTION III The Intersectionof Political Ideas and Practice; 9 Governing the State and the Self: Political Philosophy and Practice in the Edicts of A�soka; 10 Politics, Violence, and War in K�amandaka's N�itis�ara; 11 The Power of a Poet: Kingship, Empire, and War in K�alid�asa's Raghuva�m �sa; SECTION IV Looking beyond India to Asia ; 12 Gifts from Other Lands: Southeast Asian Religious Endowments in India.
13 Politics, Piety, and Patronage: The Burmese Engagement with Bodhgay�aAbout the Author; Index.
Summary: A major contribution to the different perspectives and issues central to understanding ancient India.
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Cover ; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Introduction; SECTION I Religion and Region; 1 Sanchi: The History of the Patronage of an Ancient Buddhist Establishment; 2 Nagarjunakonda: Buddhism in the 'City of Victory'; 3 Cults and Shrines in Early Historical Mathura (c. 200 BC-AD 200); 4 Early Medieval Orissa: The Data and the Debate; SECTION II Archaeologists and the Modern Histories of Ancient Sites; 5 Archaeologists and Architectural Scholars in 19th Century India; 6 Amaravati: The Dismembering ofthe Mah�acaitya (1797-1886).

7 Buddhism, Archaeology, and the Nation: Nagarjunakonda (1926-2006)8 Exile and Return: The Reinvention of Buddhism and Buddhist Sites in Modern India; SECTION III The Intersectionof Political Ideas and Practice; 9 Governing the State and the Self: Political Philosophy and Practice in the Edicts of A�soka; 10 Politics, Violence, and War in K�amandaka's N�itis�ara; 11 The Power of a Poet: Kingship, Empire, and War in K�alid�asa's Raghuva�m �sa; SECTION IV Looking beyond India to Asia ; 12 Gifts from Other Lands: Southeast Asian Religious Endowments in India.

13 Politics, Piety, and Patronage: The Burmese Engagement with Bodhgay�aAbout the Author; Index.

A major contribution to the different perspectives and issues central to understanding ancient India.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

English.

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