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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      02 May 2020
      03 December 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108781176
      9781108494571
      9781108748513
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108494571
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.82kg, 524 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.68kg, 524 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    India is generally regarded as a civilization with a set of intrinsic attributes that emerged in the age of the Vedas or, better still, in the Harappan times. In recent decades, historical studies have moved away from rigid perspectives of singularity in origin and expansion; the emphasis now is on pluralities and long-term processes spanning centuries and millennia. There is also an influential school of thought which rejects antiquity claims such as these and holds that India is a construct of the colonial and nationalist imagination. In his radical reinterpretation of India's past, Manu V. Devadevan moves away from these reifying assessments to examine the evolution of institutions, ideas and identities that are characterized, typically, as Indian. In lieu of endorsing their Indianness, he traces their emergence to specific conditions that developed in India between 600 and 1200 CE, a period which historians now call the 'early medieval'.

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    ‘… Devadevan uses a truly impressive range of examples from politics, religion, philosophy, architecture, literature, and economy to support his thesis. … With an approach indebted to the work of the Keralan historian and epigraphist Kesavan Veluthat and a sweeping command of his material, Devadevan has produced a work that deserves to be read and discussed…’

    Brian Collins Source: Religon

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