This book demonstrates that a collection of varied essays is, in fact, a woven tapestry with perforated boundaries and a stage for interdisciplinary voices to speak to one another in several ways. Focusing on peninsular India, the essays cover diverse topics stretching from megalithic times to the eighteenth century. They rely on classical languages and historical materials to source information, employ versatile methods and examine wide-ranging themes including archaeological sites, trade routes, iron technology, water management, coinage, social hierarchies, goddesses and narrative traditions, performing arts and culture, forms of protests, crime and punishment, and narratives of death alongside socioeconomic and political processes.

ISBN 13: 9789352907762

ISBN 10: 9352907760

Year: 2019

Language: ENGLISH

Pages etc.: xiv+357p.. appendices, bib., ind., 24cm.

Binding: Hardbound

Subject(s): History