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888091
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Singh, Upinder.
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The Idea of Ancient India : : Essays on Religion, Politics, and Archaeology.
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| Publication Statement
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New Delhi :: SAGE Publications,, 2016.
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1 online resource (483 pages)
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9351506452
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: 9789351506454
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9351506460
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9351506479
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9789351506478
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Cover ; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Introduction; SECTION I Religion and Region; 1 Sanchi: The History of the Patronage of an Ancient Buddhist Establishment; 2 Nagarjunakonda: Buddhism in the 'City of Victory'; 3 Cults and Shrines in Early Historical Mathura (c. 200 BC-AD 200); 4 Early Medieval Orissa: The Data and the Debate; SECTION II Archaeologists and the Modern Histories of Ancient Sites; 5 Archaeologists and Architectural Scholars in 19th Century India; 6 Amaravati: The Dismembering ofthe Mahācaitya (1797-1886).
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13 Politics, Piety, and Patronage: The Burmese Engagement with BodhgayāAbout the Author; Index.
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7 Buddhism, Archaeology, and the Nation: Nagarjunakonda (1926-2006)8 Exile and Return: The Reinvention of Buddhism and Buddhist Sites in Modern India; SECTION III The Intersectionof Political Ideas and Practice; 9 Governing the State and the Self: Political Philosophy and Practice in the Edicts of Aśoka; 10 Politics, Violence, and War in Kāmandaka's Nītisāra; 11 The Power of a Poet: Kingship, Empire, and War in Kālidāsa's Raghuvaṁ śa; SECTION IV Looking beyond India to Asia ; 12 Gifts from Other Lands: Southeast Asian Religious Endowments in India.
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A major contribution to the different perspectives and issues central to understanding ancient India.
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Archaeology and religion-- India.
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Archaeology-- Political aspects-- India.
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Buddhism-- India-- History.
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Excavations (Archaeology)-- India.
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Inscriptions, Indic.
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Sacred space-- India.
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Antiquities.
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Archaeology and religion.
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Archaeology-- Political aspects.
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Buddhism.
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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HISTORY-- Asia-- India South Asia.
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Inscriptions, Indic.
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Intellectual life.
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Sacred space.
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India, Antiquities.
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India, History, 324 B.C.-1000 A.D., Sources.
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India, History, To 324 B.C., Sources.
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India, Intellectual life.
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India.
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| Dewey Classification
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934
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DS419.S53 2016eb
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