The state in India : past and present

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The state in India : past and present

edited by Masaaki Kimura and Akio Tanabe

Oxford University Press, 2006

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Summary: Covers the period prior to 997 A.D. to 20th century; transcript of papers presented at an international workshop held in Kyoto from 2 to 5 December 1999

Includes bibliographical references

Contents of Works

  • State and kingship in the period of the Sixteen Mahājanapadas in Ancient North India / Gen'ichi Yamazaki
  • The integrative model of the state formation in early medieval India : some historiographic remarks / Hermann Kulke
  • The social background of state formation in India / Masaaki Kimura
  • Doṣa (sin)-prāyaścitta (penance) : the predominating ideology in the medieval Deccan / Hiroyuki Kotani
  • The coin of the realm : (un)making polities in late pre-colonial South-Asia / Sanjay Subrahmanyam
  • The mirasi system as social grammar : state, local society, and raiyat in eighteenth-nineteenth century South India / Tsukasa Mizushima
  • Early modernity and colonial transformation : rethinking the role of the king in eighteenth and nineteenth century Orissa, India / Akio Tanabe
  • The ethnographic state / Nocholas B. Dirks
  • The secularity of the state / Peter van der Veer
  • Hindu priests under secular government : a case study of the Nataraja Temple at Chidambaram, South India / Masakazu Tanaka
  • Democratic culture and images of the state : India's unending ambivalence / Ashis Nandy
  • The Indian state in the evolving international order / Matin Zuberi

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