The Idea of Ancient India : essays on religion, politics, and srchaeology
| 1. Verfasser: |
Singh, Upinder
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Los Angeles :
SAGE Publications,
2016.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xlii, 439 pages : illustrations. |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
India |
| Online Zugang: |
Online available (Ebook Central) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.
