Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
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Essays in Ancient Indian Economic History is part of a three-volume set focusing on the developments in the economic history of India during the last millennium. The essays in this volume provide an outline of the change in the status and orientation of early Indian economic history and in the approach to the economic features of ancient Indian history. The essays traverse diverse subjects such as the function of property, family and caste, the origin of the ...
Accepted as a polymath, D.D. Kosambi was the first to use an interdisciplinary method in historical investigation, and to deploy his mathematical and scientific genius to the study of issues as wide ranging as the reading of ancient Indian texts, numismatics, philology, religion, historical reconstruction, archaeology, and anthropology. Professionally trained as a mathematician, he also contributed prodigiously to indological studies--both as an editor of ...
This important book puts together, for the first time, the many essays, notes and reviews which D.D. Kosambi, an acknowledged pioneer who introduced new perspectives and methods in indological studies, wrote and published over a period of almost thirty years. Accepted as a polymath, Kosambi was professionally trained as a mathematician, but, in addition to researching in various fields of science, also contributed prodigiously to indological studies, both as an ...
Coins and Currency Systems in South India c. AD 225-1300 is a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the coinage of the post-Satavahana and pre-Vijayanagara period. The author has studied and utilized all the published material on the subject and has also thoroughly examined several collections of coins with a view to ascertaining afresh the problems of chronology and dynastic affiliations of coins. The work also has a corpus of coins which describes and gives ...
Modern history-writing, by giving Muslims a single identity from the time that different groups practising Islam started arriving in India, has made an arbitrarily clear distinction between early and later immigrants. This has produced the mindset, still strongly entrenched and often receiving academic support, that Indian history, and Indian citizens, are divisible on the basis of religion. The question whether this indeed was the perspective of Indians of ...
Aspect of Rural Settlements and Rural Society is an enlarged version of the 1985 S.G. Deuskar Lectures delivered at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, in March 1987. Based primarily on inscriptional evidence, the Lectures focus on two interrelated aspects of rural society. By analyzing the details available in the inscriptions, the Lectures bring out how early medieval perceptions are important not only for differentiating between broad segments ...
This book comprises a set of essays on some of the key issues which continue to excite historians and scholars of early India. It shows the profound impact of colonialism on the study of India's early past, the new methods and premises introduced into India by colonial studies, and the variety of departures from traditional, pre-colonial modes of history-writing. It goes on to fore: such as the integration of archaeology with narratives of early Indian history; ...