Religious Process: The Puranas and the Making of a Regional Tradition (Oip) - Softcover

Chakrabarti, Kunal

 
9780199482542: Religious Process: The Puranas and the Making of a Regional Tradition (Oip)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0199482543 ISBN 13: 9780199482542
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR, 2018

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This book traces the evolution of a process of interaction between Brahmanism and the indigenous social groups of Bengal during the early medieval period. Following the logic of cultural negotiation implicit in the Puranas composed composed in Bengal, the book unravels a pattern that governed this relationship of recirpocity, contestation and domination. Two significant methodoligical issues have been addressed--the manner in which didactic Sanskritic texts can be read for the reconstruction of early Indian history and the application of anthropological models, such as great and little traditions, to such texts for a more comprehensive understanding of the Indian culture continuum. The book focuses on Bengal, but cultural negotiations refers to a fundamental civilizational pocess common to most regions in India, and as such has wider relevance.

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Kunal Chakrabarti is Professor of Ancient Indian History at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

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Verlag
OXFORD UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0199482543
ISBN 13 
9780199482542
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
384
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