Aspects of Rural Settlements and Rural Society in Early Medieval India - Couverture rigide

Chattopadhyaya, Brajadulal

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9386552353 ISBN 13 : 9789386552358

Editeur : Primus Books, 2017

Synopsis

Aspects of Rural Settlements and Rural Society in Early Medieval India seeks to undertake two kinds of explorations, one methodological and the other thematic. Methodologically, it examines texts of inscriptions--historians' main source for references to ancient villages--from diverse angles to try and understand the morphologies of villages in relation to different terrains across the country. One important aspect of this exploration concerns understanding, to the extent possible, the relationship of village location/s and sources of water, both for fields and habitats. Thematic explorations, apart from looking for possible physical appearances of ancient villages, extend to the search for the re-examination of the concept of village community, the search for hierarchies among village residents and settlements, and the changing nature of relationship between apex political authorities and villages. The conclusion, deriving from these explorations, makes an argument for the need to depart from the image of India's villages as unchanging, inert, insulated and self-sufficient spatial units to viewing them as varied social
spaces in interaction with other spaces, which also went through phases of historical change.

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À propos de l?auteur

Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya taught Early Indian History for a long spell of more than three decades at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He also taught, at different points of time, at Burdwan University and VisvaBharati, Santiniketan. His research interests focus on the Early Medieval period of Indian history.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Primus Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9386552353
• ISBN 13: 9789386552358
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 122
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