The Idea of Ancient India : Essays on Religion, Politics, and Archaeology.
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi : SAGE Publications, 2016.Description: 1 online resource (483 pages)Content type:- text
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- India -- Antiquities
- Archaeology and religion -- India
- Archaeology -- Political aspects -- India
- India -- History -- To 324 B.C. -- Sources
- India -- History -- 324 B.C.-1000 A.D. -- Sources
- Buddhism -- India -- History
- Excavations (Archaeology) -- India
- Sacred space -- India
- Inscriptions, Indic
- India -- Intellectual life
- HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia
- Antiquities
- Archaeology and religion
- Archaeology -- Political aspects
- Buddhism
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Inscriptions, Indic
- Intellectual life
- Sacred space
- India
- To 1000
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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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