Library \ Book \ ISBN - 8173042292 \ Call# 954.090 2 JHA

The feudal order : state, society and ideology in early medieval India

English / Editors- Jha, D. N: (New Delhi: Manohar, 2000)

Keywords - {Medieval India, Indian Historiography, Feudal Society} Status - Checkshelf

Series - {}

Record Number - {02952}

Contents

Preface vii
Abbreviations ix
List of Contributors xi
Editor's Introduction 1

PART - I : TRANSITION TO FEUDALISM
The Kali Age : A Period of Social Crisis 61
R.S. Sharma
The Accounts of the Kali Age and the Social Transition from 79 Antiquity to the Middle Ages - B.N.S. Yadava
The Prevalence of Private Landholding in the Lower Kaveri 121
Valley in the Late Cola Period and its Historical Implications
Noboru Karashima

PART - II : FEUDAL STATE AND SOCIETY
The Segmentary State and the Indian Experience 137
R.S. Sharma
The Role of Nadu in the Sociopolitical Structure of South India 179
(c. AD 600 - 1200) - Kesavan Veluthat
State Formation in a Peripheral Region : The Case of Early 197 Medieval Chamba - D.N. Jha
Feudal Elements in the Caulukya State : An Attempt at 211
Relocation Vishwa Mohan Jha
The Problem of the Emergence of Feudal Relations in Early 249
India B.N.S. Yadava
Agrarian Growth and Social Conflicts in Early India 303
R.N. Nandi
Monetization in a Coastal Economy : The Case of Konkan 345
under the Silaharas - K.M. Shrimali

PART - III : FEUDAL IDEOLOGY
Bhakti Movement in South India 385
M.G.S. Narayanan & Kesavan Veluthat
Mahadana : The Dynamics of Gift -economy and the Feudal 411
Milieu Vijay Nath
Material Milieu of Tantricism - R.S. Sharma 441
The Feudal Mind - R.S. Sharma 455
Origin of the Virasaiva Movement - R.N. Nandi 469
Art under Feudalism in India (c. AD 500 - 1300) 487
Devangana Desai

Select Bibliography 497
Index 527

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