The early medieval in South India
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The early medieval in South India
（Oxford collected essays）
Oxford University Press, 2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book re-examines and presents an alternative reading of the south Indian history. It explores the notion of 'early medieval' in south India. The book is divided into three sections. The first section is devoted to problems and history general to the whole of the deep South. A very important question that raises itself is concerning the transition to the 'early medieval'. What was the kind of economy, society, polity, etc. that existed in the South before that period? What were the forces, which rendered them obsolete or non-workable? What were the processes through which a transition to an alternative formation took place? The second section looks at the history of Kerala which has remained relatively less researched than that of the rest of south India. The last section discusses the Karnataka region and argues that the pattern observed in the rest of south India is seen in this case also, with reference to institutions typical of this period.
Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I TAMILAKAM IN GENERAL
- CHAPTER 1. INTO THE 'MEDIEVAL' AND OUT OF IT: EARLY SOUTH INDIA IN TRANSITION
- CHAPTER 2. PATRONAGE AND RECIPROCATION: THE TEMPLE IN MEDIEVAL SOUTH INDIA
- CHAPTER 3.THE STRUCTURE OF LAND RIGHTS AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN EARLY MEDIEVAL SOUTH INDIA
- CHAPTER 4. LABOUR RENT AND PRODUCE RENT: REVENUE SYSTEM UNDER THE COLAS
- CHAPTER 5.THE ROLE OF NADU IN THE SOCIO-POLITICAL STRUCTURE OF SOUTH
- PART II EARLY MEDIEVAL KERALA
- CHAPTER 6.THE KERALOLPATTI AS HISTORY: A NOTE ON THE PRE-COLONIAL TRADITIONS OF HISTORICAL WRITING IN INDIA
- CHAPTER 7. EPIGRAPHY IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF KERALA
- CHAPTER 8. STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL OF INFORMATION: LITERACY AND COMMUNICATION IN PRE-MODERN KERALA
- CHAPTER 9. THE KING AS LORD AND OVERLORD
- CHAPTER 10. MAHODAYAPURAM-KOTUNNALLUR: A CAPITAL CITY AS SACRED CENTRE
- CHAPTER 11. MEDIEVAL KERALA: STATE AND SOCIETY
- CHAPTER 12. LANDLORDISM IN MEDIEVAL KERALA: ITS ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT
- CHAPTER 13. EVOLUTION OF REGIONAL IDENTITY: KERALA IN INDIA
- PART III IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: EARLY MEDIEVAL KARNATAKA
- CHAPTER 14. THE NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF VELEVALI
- CHAPTER 15. LANDED MAGNATES AS STATE AGENTS:HOYSALAS IN KARNATAKA
- INDEX
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