| Autore |
Singh Upinder
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| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
New Delhi : , : SAGE Publications, , 2016
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (483 p.)
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| Disciplina |
934
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| Soggetto topico |
Archaeology and religion - India
Archaeology - Political aspects - India
Buddhism - India - History
Excavations (Archaeology) - India
Sacred space - India
Inscriptions, Indic
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| Soggetto genere / forma |
Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
93-5150-645-2
93-5150-647-9
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
I. Contextualizing inscriptions -- Sanchi : the history of the patronage of an ancient Buddhist establishment -- Nagarjunakonda : Buddhism in the "City of Victory" -- Cults and shrines in early historical Mathura (c. 200 BC to AD 200) -- Early medieval Orissa : the data and the debate -- II. Archaeologists and the modern histories of ancient sites -- Archaeologists and architectural scholars in 19th century India -- Amaravati : the dismembering of the Mahacaitya (1797-1886) -- Buddhism, archaeology, and the nation : Nagarjunakonda (1926-2006) -- Exile and return : the reinvention of Buddhism and Buddhist sites in modern India -- III. The intersection of political ideas and practice -- Governing the state and the self : political philosophy and practice in the edicts of Asoka -- Politics, violence, and war in Kamandaka's Nitisara -- The power of a poet : kingship, empire, and war in Kalidasa's Raghuvaṃśa -- IV. Looking beyond India to Asia -- Gifts from other lands : Southeast Asian religious endowments in India -- Politics, piety, and patronage : the Burmese engagement with Bodhgaya.
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910466317103321 |
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The idea of ancient India : essays on religion, politics, and archaeology / / Upinder Singh
