The Archaeology of Early Medieval and Medieval South Asia: Contesting Narratives from the Eastern Ganga-Brahmaputra Basin
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- Synopsis
- This book looks at the ways in which archaeological methods have been used in debates concerning the early medieval and medieval periods in South Asia. Despite the incorporation and use of archaeological data to corroborate historical narratives, the theories and methods of archaeology are largely ignored in and excluded from the dominating, institutionalized and hegemonic disciplinary discourses. The volume offers contesting insights, polemical narratives, and new data from archaeological contexts to initiate a debate on many foundational premises of archaeological and historical narratives. It focuses on the much-neglected region of the Eastern Ganga-Brahmaputra Basin as a spatial frame to do this, and studies themes such as spatial and temporal scales of concepts and methods, multi-scaler factors and processes of continuity and changes, the settlement archaeology on alluvial landscape, changing patterns of agrarian transformation, and material cultures, including coins, inscriptions, pottery, sculptures, in their contexts in sub-regional, regional and supra-regional intersections. As a crucial and unprecedented intervention in the study of the early medieval and the medieval periods, this volume will be useful for scholars and researchers of archaeology, ancient history, medieval history, water history, earth sciences, palaeoecology, historical ecology, epigraphy, art history, material culture studies, Indian history, and South Asian Studies in general.
- Copyright:
- 2023
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 374 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781000780758
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781003340416, 9781138320925, 9781032374826
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 11/22/22
- Copyrighted By:
- selection and editorial matter, Swadhin Sen, Supriya Varma and Bhairabi Prasad Sahu
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Swadhin Sen
- Edited by:
- Supriya Varma
- Edited by:
- Bhairabi Prasad Sahu