Penguin Book The Idea Of Ancient India By Upinder Singh Essays on Religion, politics & Archaeology English Medium

Penguin Book The Idea Of Ancient India By Upinder Singh Essays on Religion, politics & Archaeology English Medium Total pages :- 513 Penguin Book The Idea Of Ancient India By Upinder Singh Essays on Religion, politics & Archaeology English Medium Table of Contents 1. 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 to AD 200) 4. Early Medieval Orissa: The Data and the Debate II. Archaeologists and the Modern Histories of Ancient Sites 5. Archaeologists and Architectural Scholars in 19th Century India 6. Amaravati: The Dismembering of the Mahacaitya (1797-1886) 7. Buddhism, Archaeology, and the Nation: Nagarjunakonda (1926-2006) 8. Exile and Return: The Reinvention of Buddhism and Buddhist Sites in Modern India viii THE IDEA OF ANCIENT INDIA III. The Intersection of Political Ideas and Practice 9. Governing the State and the Self: Political Philosophy and Practice in the Edicts of Asoka 10. Inscribing Power on the Realm: Royal Ideology and Religious Policy in India (c. 200 BCE-300 CE) 11. Politics, Violence, and War in Kamandaka’s Nitisära 12. The Power of a Poet: Kingship, Empire, and War in Kalidasa’s Raghuvansa 13. The State, Violence, and Resistance (c. 600 BCE-600 cz) IV. Looking beyond India to Asia 14. Gifts from Other Lands: Southeast Asian Religious Endowments in India 15. Politics, Piety, and Patronage: The Burmese Engagement with Bodhgaya Index