The Idea of Ancient India : essays on religion, politics, and srchaeology

1. Verfasser: Singh, Upinder , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2016.
Umfang/Format: xlii, 439 pages : illustrations.
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: India
Online Zugang: Online available (Ebook Central)
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a I. Contextualizing inscriptions -- Sanchi : the history of the patronage of an ancient Buddhist establishment -- Nagarjunakonda : Buddhism in the "City of Victory" -- Cults and shrines in early historical Mathura (c. 200 BC to AD 200) -- Early medieval Orissa : the data and the debate -- II. Archaeologists and the modern histories of ancient sites -- Archaeologists and architectural scholars in 19th century India -- Amaravati : the dismembering of the Mahacaitya (1797-1886) -- Buddhism, archaeology, and the nation : Nagarjunakonda (1926-2006) -- Exile and return : the reinvention of Buddhism and Buddhist sites in modern India -- III. The intersection of political ideas and practice -- Governing the state and the self : political philosophy and practice in the edicts of Asoka -- Politics, violence, and war in Kamandaka's Nitisara -- The power of a poet : kingship, empire, and war in Kalidasa's Raghuvamsa -- IV. Looking beyond India to Asia -- Gifts from other lands : Southeast Asian religious endowments in India -- Politics, piety, and patronage : the Burmese engagement with Bodhgaya. 
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650 0 |a Archaeology  |x Political aspects  |z India. 
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650 0 |a Sacred space  |z India. 
650 0 |a Inscriptions, Indic. 
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