History and Theory: the study of state, institutions and the making of history

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Contributor(s):

Chatterji Basudev

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Hyderabad Orient Blackswan 2019Description: xxi, 338pISBN:

9789352874644

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DDC classification:

954 SAH/H

Contents:

Foreword Basudev Chatterji Preface Publishers’ Acknowledgements Introduction Bhairabi Prasad Sahu and Kesavan Veluthat R. S. SHARMA AND EARLY INDIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY 1. Ram Sharan Sharma (1920–2011) Romila Thapar 2. Studying India’s Past: The Need for a Sociological Turn K. Paddayya 3. Cracking the Narcissist’s Mirror: The Historiographical Legacy of R. S. Sharma B. Surendra Rao 4. R. S. Sharma and the Histories of State in Early India Bhairabi Prasad Sahu 5. The Unspoken Debate: Revisiting Mid-20th Century Conceptualisations of the Shudras Kumkum Roy 6. Ways of Seeing: R. S. Sharma’s Study of Trade and Urbanisation in the First Millennium Suchandra Ghosh QUERYING THE EARLY INDIAN PAST 7. Dynamics of ‘State’ Organisation in Pre-Satavahana and Satavahana Settlements in the Deccan M. L. K. Murty 8. Revisiting the Ajivikas in Epigraphic Records Susmita Basu Majumdar 9. Changing Forces, Relations and Forms of Servitude in Early India Rajan Gurukkal 10. Making the Best of a Bad Bargain: The Brighter Side of Kaliyuga Kesavan Veluthat 11. The Problem of War in Ancient Indian Thought Upinder Singh 12. Texts and Transitions: Early Indian Literature and the Problem of Historical Change Shonaleeka Kaul 13. Forced Labour and Peasantry in Medieval Tamil Nadu (900–1300 CE) Y. Subbarayalu DOMINATION AND RESISTANCE 14. New Religious Sects as Exponents of Radical Socio-Political Ideas: Case Studies from Eastern India, 1769–1882 Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri 15. The Concept of Civilisation in the Theory of International Law in the 19th Century Sabyasachi Bhattacharya 16. Womanhood and Anxiety in a Marginal Colony: A Goan Episode Amar Farooqui Selected Writings of Professor R. S. Sharma Notes on Contributors Index

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Includes bibliographical references

Foreword
Basudev Chatterji
Preface
Publishers’ Acknowledgements
Introduction
Bhairabi Prasad Sahu and Kesavan Veluthat

R. S. SHARMA AND EARLY INDIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY

1. Ram Sharan Sharma (1920–2011)
Romila Thapar
2. Studying India’s Past: The Need for a Sociological Turn
K. Paddayya
3. Cracking the Narcissist’s Mirror: The Historiographical Legacy of R. S. Sharma
B. Surendra Rao
4. R. S. Sharma and the Histories of State in Early India
Bhairabi Prasad Sahu
5. The Unspoken Debate: Revisiting Mid-20th Century Conceptualisations of the Shudras
Kumkum Roy
6. Ways of Seeing: R. S. Sharma’s Study of Trade and Urbanisation in the First Millennium
Suchandra Ghosh

QUERYING THE EARLY INDIAN PAST

7. Dynamics of ‘State’ Organisation in Pre-Satavahana and Satavahana Settlements in the Deccan
M. L. K. Murty
8. Revisiting the Ajivikas in Epigraphic Records
Susmita Basu Majumdar
9. Changing Forces, Relations and Forms of Servitude in Early India
Rajan Gurukkal
10. Making the Best of a Bad Bargain: The Brighter Side of Kaliyuga
Kesavan Veluthat
11. The Problem of War in Ancient Indian Thought
Upinder Singh
12. Texts and Transitions: Early Indian Literature and the Problem of Historical Change
Shonaleeka Kaul
13. Forced Labour and Peasantry in Medieval Tamil Nadu (900–1300 CE)
Y. Subbarayalu

DOMINATION AND RESISTANCE

14. New Religious Sects as Exponents of Radical Socio-Political Ideas: Case Studies from Eastern India, 1769–1882
Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri
15. The Concept of Civilisation in the Theory of International Law in the 19th Century
Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
16. Womanhood and Anxiety in a Marginal Colony: A Goan Episode
Amar Farooqui

Selected Writings of Professor R. S. Sharma
Notes on Contributors
Index

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