Structure and Society in Early South India Essays in Honour of Noboru Karashima

by Hall, Kenneth R.

• ISBN13: 9780195651508
• ISBN10: 0195651502
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This collection of essays in honor of Noboru Karashima, whose vast research has uncovered much of the history of the Pallava-Cola and Vijayanagara eras in south Indian history, a period that spans the eighth to the sixteenth centuries. The essays address the emergence of rural and urban societies and state systems in the region and demonstrate the richness of contemporary research, particularly that based on the study of pre-colonial south Indian temple inscriptions. Topics include the extension of settled cultivation, the role of brahmadeya communities, the Kancipuram and Cidambaram ritual centers, kinship, feminism, and the Vijayanagara nayaka networks. The final chapter, on the initial Indian communities that were in contact with southeast Asia, offers a contrast between the evolving and functional rols of south Indian and Javanese temple centers.

Table of Contents

List of Tables, Charts, Maps, and Figures	xi
Contributors	xiii
Structural Change and Societal Integration in Early South India: An Introductory Essay	1	(27)
Kenneth R. Hall
In Search of Change: Reflections on the Scholarship of Noboru Karashima	28	(16)
George W. Spencer
Whispering of Inscriptions	44	(15)
Noboru Karashima
Reappraisal of a Brahmanical Institution: The Brahmadeya and its Ramifications in Early Medieval South India	59	(26)
R. Champakalakshmi
Merchants, Rulers, and Priests in An Early South Indian Sacred Centre: Cidambaram in the Age of the Colas	85	(32)
Kenneth R. Hall
Urbanization and Political Economy in Early South India: Kancipuram During the Cola Period	117	(40)
James Heitzman
The Emergence of Sedentary Agriculture in Interior Tamilnadu in the Thirteenth Century	157	(24)
Brian Murton
Kinship, Language, and the Construction of South India	181	(17)
Thomas R. Trautmann
Women in the Temple, the Palace, and the Family: The Construction of Women's Identities in Pre-Colonial Tamilnadu	198	(37)
Leslie C. Orr
Arasus of the Pudukkottai Region and the Nayaka System	235	(16)
Y. Subbarayalu
The Nayakas of Vijayanagara Andhra: A Preliminary Prospography	251	(25)
Cynthia Talbot
Ritual Transitions and Kingship in Fifteenth-century Java: A View from the Candi Panataran Complex	276	(35)
Kenneth R. Hall
Bibliography	311	(18)
Index	329