TY  - BOOK
AU  - B P Sahu
AU  - B P Sahu
TI  - The changing gaze:  : regions and the constructions of early India
SN  - 9780198089193
U1  - 934.0072 SAH 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New Delhi ; Oxford
PB  -  : Oxford University Press
KW  - History
KW  -  India -- History -- To 324 B.C
KW  - India -- Civilization -- To 1200
N1  - 	Introduction: Regions and the Constructions of Early India. --
Part 1: Early patterns of social and cultural change. Brahmanical Conception of Origin of Jatis: A Study of Manusmrti ; Conception of the Kali Age in Early India: Perspectives from the Regions ; Varṇa, Jati, and the Shaping of Early Oriya Society ; Profiling of Daksina Kosala: The Making of an Early Historical Subregion?. --
Part II: The trajectory of regional polities. Ways of Seeing: History and Historiography of the State in Early India ; The Early State in Orissa: From the Perspective of Changing Forms of Patronage and Legitimation ; Characterizing Early Medieval Indian Polity: The Case of Daksina Kosala and Beyond ; Legitimation, Ideology, and State in Early India. --
Part III: The shaping of regional rural societies. Mapping the Patterns of Regional Land Systems and Rural Society ; Agrarian Changes and the Peasantry in Early Medieval Orissa ; Shifting the Gaze: Facets of Sub-regional Agrarian Economies ; Dissent and Protest in Early Indian Societies: Some Historiographic Remarks
N2  - Why did Indian historians move away from the centric approach in the 1970s? Why did they shift their focus to local sub-regions instead of focusing on historio-geographic blocks like the Gangetic heartland or the Kaveri valley? What were the constructs that developed the concept of India? Examining the questions that have shaped history-writing in India, this book maps the changing perspectives about early India. Focusing on the histories of regions, the volume studies social and cultural change, regional polities, and various socio-economic aspects of regional and rural societies. It includes a wide range of topics: from the role of Brahmanical ideology in the construction of caste to the regional dimensions of the Kali Age crisis; from agrarian land systems to forms of protest and dissent; and the evolution of regional identities in Indian historiography. The Introduction provides an overview of the issues and themes discussed, and surveys the research on early India
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