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Imagining the Urban

2011 Social Science
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Release : 2011
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Imagining the Urban by : Shonaleeka Kaul

Download or read book Imagining the Urban written by Shonaleeka Kaul. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Imagining the Urban, Shonaleeka Kaul turns to Sanskrit literature to discover the characteristics--both physical and social--of ancient Indian cities. Kaul examines nearly a thousand years of Sanskrit kāvyas to see what India's early historic cities were like as living, lived-in, entities--and discovers that the cities were vibrant and teeming with variety and life. As much about Sanskrit literature as about urban spaces--insofar as that literature reveals significant aspects of the Indian urban past-- Imagining the Urban shows that Sanskrit literature is a rich source for historical understanding. Advocating the kāvyas as an important historical source, Kaul provides a fresh view of the early city, showing distinctive ways of thought and behavior that relate to tradition, morality, and authority. With its provocative new questions about early Indian cities and ancient Indian texts, this book will be an essential read for scholars of urban history, Sanskrit writings, and South Asian antiquity.

City in Early Historical India

1990
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Release : 1990
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Book Rating : 532/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book City in Early Historical India written by . This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The City in Early Historical India

1973 Cities and towns
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Release : 1973
Genre : Cities and towns
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Book Synopsis The City in Early Historical India by : Amalananda Ghosh

Download or read book The City in Early Historical India written by Amalananda Ghosh. This book was released on 1973. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Imagining the Urban

2010 Cities and towns in literature
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Release : 2010
Genre : Cities and towns in literature
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Book Rating : 781/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Imagining the Urban by : Shonaleeka Kaul

Download or read book Imagining the Urban written by Shonaleeka Kaul. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... Kaul examines Sanskrit kāvyas over about a thousand years to see what India's early historic cities were like as living, lived-in, entities. She looks at ideologies, attitudes, institutions, and practices in ancient urban areas, showing the ways in which they often cohered into a worldview, a mentalité. This is also a book about Sanskrit literature. ... She takes forward the idea of a Sanskrit 'literary culture', arguing that genres influence methods of historical representation. Her book gives us a fresh view of the early city, showing distinctive urban ways of thought and behaviour which relate in complex ways to tradition, morality, and authority. In advocating Sanskrit kāvyas as an important historical source, it addresses not just ancient India specialists but also scholars of literary history ... By asking new questions about early Indian cities and ancient Indian texts, this book asks to be read by every scholar of history, urbanism, cityscapes, literary history, Sanskrit writings, and South Asian antiquity."--Dust jacket.

The City and the Country in Early India

2012 History
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Release : 2012
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The City and the Country in Early India by : P. K. Basant

Download or read book The City and the Country in Early India written by P. K. Basant. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The City and the Country in Early India: A Study of Malwa is about the emergence of urban centres in the sixth century bce, and analyses the processes and spatiality of urbanization, taking Malwa as its case study. Earlier research on urbanism has focussed on either literary or archaeological sources. While literary sources tend to locate the agency for change exclusively in preachers and rulers, in archaeology, the forces of change become nameless and faceless. The study of inscriptions from Malwa helps in restoring agency to common people. The beginnings of urbanism are to be found in the pre-literate past, and, therefore, require an analysis of archaeological data. Using insights from anthropology and studies of early states, in the first half of the book an attempt has been made to look for new ways to account for urbanization. The second half of the book tries to understand the process of urbanization by examining epigraphic and literary sources. The process of the emergence of urban centres created new forms of division of space: urban centres were surrounded by villages which in turn were surrounded by wilderness. This book tries to recover the histories of their complex interrelations. Since caste and kinship are considered central to the world of Indian sociology, an attempt has also been made to understand the relationships between caste, kinship and urbanism. Changes in the attitude of the literati towards the city and the country have also been examined.

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