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The Early Medieval' Origins of India

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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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Authors Manu V Devadevan, Manu V. Devadevan, Devadevan Manu V., Devadevan Manu V. Devadevan
Publisher Cambridge University Press Academic
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.08.2020
 
EAN 9781108748513
ISBN 978-1-108-74851-3
No. of pages 524
Dimensions 153 mm x 230 mm x 31 mm
Subjects Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

History of Ideas, India, CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, Asian History, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, HISTORY / Asia / South / General

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