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008			151109s2016 caua b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2015039148
020			_a9789351506461 (hardback : alkaline paper)
020			_z9789351506478 (ebook)
020			_z9789351506454 (ePub)
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050	0	0	_aDS419 _b.S53 2016
082	0	0	_a934.01 _bSME
100			_aSmith, Vincent A.
245	1	4	_aThe edicts of Asoka / _cVincent A. Smith.
264		1	_aLos Angeles : _bSAGE Publications,
300			_axlii, 439 p. : _bill. ; _c22 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aI. 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.
520	2		_a"This book engages with some of the most important issues, debates, and methodologies in the writings of ancient Indian history. Thematically structured into four sections, it critically addresses how the material remains of India's early past were discovered and understood in colonial and post-colonial times. The first section highlights the importance of a thorough empirical approach for understanding the process of social history and early medieval state formation. The second connects ancient and modern India, based extensively on archival sources. The third and fourth sections emphasize the important issue of ancient Indian intellectual history, underlining the significance of reconstructing the intellectual landscape of ancient India through a sensitive and yet critical historicization of its texts and inscriptions"--Provided by publisher.
650		0	_aArchaeology and religion _zIndia.
650		0	_aArchaeology _xPolitical aspects _zIndia.
650		0	_aBuddhism _zIndia _xHistory.
650		0	_aExcavations (Archaeology) _zIndia.
650		0	_aSacred space _zIndia.
650		0	_aInscriptions, Indic.
651		0	_aIndia _xAntiquities.
651		0	_aIndia _xHistory _yTo 324 B.C. _vSources.
651		0	_aIndia _xHistory _y324 B.C.-1000 A.D. _vSources.
651		0	_aIndia _xIntellectual life.
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955			_brf14 2015-11-09 _irf14 2015-11-09 telework episodic; to SL _axn11 2016-05-23 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver.
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