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Recent scholarship on the history of music in South Asia has examined the processes by which music as an art form was reinvented for nationalist purposes, yet, the disciplined study of music (and its aesthetics) remains only a few centuries old. Studying music through a historical lens has opened new approaches to interdisciplinary studies. Music as History in Tamilnadu examines how history can be interpreted through aesthetics and music and vice ...
This book is memory of Professor Partha Sarathi Gupta, who taught at the Department of History, Delhi University, from 1962 till 1999. He passed away suddenly on 10 August 1999, just a few days after his retirement. A dedicated historian with a zeal for exactitude, an endite scholar and a committed teacher, Professor Gupta was in many ways ‘an institution within an institution’ and a source of inspiration for generations of students, including many of the ...
In recent years South India (particularly the medieval period) had become a subject of considerable historical debate. The decline of a Status and Society, its supersession by another etc. re customarily perceived to be a disjunction. Historians of south India had paid more alterntion in tracing the impact of political changes on agrarian organization of the medieval period. Cognitiion of social and political trends are called for. A macro view without ...