This volume is the result of an international conference organized by the South Asia institute at the University of Texas. The purpose of the conference was to bring together the world’s leading Indologist representing a variety of disciplines to discuss and share recent research on a hitherto neglected period of Indian history (300 BCE to 400 C). Patrick Olivelle has collected and edited the best papers to emerge from the conference. Part 1 of the book looks as what can be construed from archaeological evidence. Part 2 concerns itself with the textual evidence for the period. Taken together, these essays offer an unprecedented look at Indian culture and society in this distant epoch.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Patrick Olivelle
Patrick Olivelle is the Chair, Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is the Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Religions. Among his recent publications are The Samnyasa Upanisads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation (Oxford, 1992), The Asrama System: History and and Hermeneutics of a Religious Institution, Rules and Regulations of Brahmanical Asceticism (State University of New York Press, 1994), Upanisads, Pancatantra, The Early Upanisads: Annotated Text and Translation, The Dharmasutra of Apastamba, Gautama, Baudhayana, and Vasistha, and Manu's Code of Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Manava-Dharmasastra.
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