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

by Hall, Kenneth R.

• ISBN13: 9780195672411
• ISBN10: 0195672410
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The essays in this collection 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.

Table of Contents

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