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About the Book:
Focusing on inscriptional materials from South Asia, these essays bring together
a range of new perspectives on social and economic history. They show how exchange
is not only about commodities or items, but also about interactions and relationships
between people. The essays span a broad time frame, starting from the early
historic and extending into the medieval. They range from studies of sites and
microregions to translocal communities and transcontinental voyages. This volume
will be of interest to those interested in exploring issues of social and economic
history across regions and timeperiods.
Contents:
Preface | Introduction
1. The First Land Grants: The Emergence of an Epigraphic Tradition in the Early
Deccan
2. Decentring the King: Kinship and Ideations of Power in the Ikxvaku Kingdom
3. Representations of Kingship: Epic Imagery in Kadamba Inscriptions
4. Ways to the Vajrasana: The Tibetan Approach (Eleventh-Thirteenth centuries
CE)
5. Temple, Trader and peptha in the inscriptions of the Srikakulam-Vishakhapatnam
Region (AD 1000-1500)
6. Doors and Walls of Mosques: Textual longue-durée in a Premodern Malabari
Inscription
7. Patterns of Transactions at Malabar Ports, c. Eleventh-Fourteenth Centuries
CE
Bibliography | Index
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