Between the Empires: Society in India 300 BCE to 400 CEPatrick Olivelle This volume is the result of an international conference organized by the South Asia Institute at the University of Texas. Patrick Olivelle has collected and edited the best papers to emerge from the conference. Part I of the book looks at what can be construed from archeological evidence. Part II 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. |
Contents
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J MARK KENOYER New Perspectives on the Mauryan and Kushana Periods | 33 |
FREDERICK M ASHER Early Indian Art Reconsidered | 51 |
4 | 67 |
The Social | 113 |
Between the Empires | 145 |
PATRICK OLIVELLE Explorations in the Early History of Dharmaśāstra | 169 |
8 | 191 |
MADHAV M DESHPANDE Changing Perspectives in the Sanskrit Grammatical | 215 |
New Perspectives | 257 |
Asceticism and Institutional | 315 |
RICHARD SALOMON Recent Discoveries of Early Buddhist Manuscripts | 349 |
Outsider | 415 |
MICHAEL WITZEL Brahmanical Reactions to Foreign Influences and to Social | 457 |
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