The state in India : past and present
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The state in India : past and present
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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Description
Beginning from the ancient period, this volume discusses the nature of the Indian state. It deals with the understanding and envisioning relationships between the state and society and between secularism and religiosity in India.
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