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Negotiating Cultural Identity Himanshu Prabha Ray (Project Mausam, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, India Munich Graduate School of Ancient Studies, Germany Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK)

Negotiating Cultural Identity By Himanshu Prabha Ray (Project Mausam, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, India Munich Graduate School of Ancient Studies, Germany Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK)

Negotiating Cultural Identity by Himanshu Prabha Ray (Project Mausam, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, India Munich Graduate School of Ancient Studies, Germany Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK)

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This book draws on research by archaeologists, numismatists and historians on the social and cultural construction of landscapes in India. It deals with the perception, use and representation of the landscape as an essential dimension of life in the early medieval period.

Negotiating Cultural Identity Summary

Negotiating Cultural Identity: Landscapes in Early Medieval South Asian History by Himanshu Prabha Ray (Project Mausam, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, India Munich Graduate School of Ancient Studies, Germany Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK)

This book draws on research by archaeologists, numismatists and historians on the social and cultural construction of landscapes in India. It deals with the perception, use and representation of the landscape as an essential dimension of life in the early medieval period.

About Himanshu Prabha Ray (Project Mausam, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, India Munich Graduate School of Ancient Studies, Germany Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK)

Himanshu Prabha Ray is Chairperson, National Monuments Authority, New Delhi.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Himanshu Prabha Ray Part I: The Archaeology of Space 1. India Cartographica: Some Roman Sightings 2. Cartography and Cultural Encounter: Conceptualisation of al-Hind by Arabic and Persian Writers from the 9th to 11th Centuries CE 3. Self, Other and the Use and Appropriation of Late Roman Coins in Peninsular India (4th to 7th centuries CE) Part II: Defining Cultural Landscapes 4. Sacred Spaces of the Middle Ganga Valley: A Case Study of Varanasi 5. Transforming the Landscape: Questions of Medieval Reuse and Worship at Ancient Jain Rock-cut Sites near Madurai 6. Of Saffron, Snow and Spirituality: Glimpses of Cultural Geography in the Rajatarangini 7. Space for Change: Evaluating the 'Paucity of Metallic Currency' in Medieval India 8. Colonial Imagination and Identity Attribution: Numismatic Cues for Defining Space 9. Shrines as 'Monuments': Issues of Classification, Custody and Conflict in Orissa

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Negotiating Cultural Identity: Landscapes in Early Medieval South Asian History by Himanshu Prabha Ray (Project Mausam, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, India Munich Graduate School of Ancient Studies, Germany Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK)
Himanshu Prabha Ray (Project Mausam, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, India Munich Graduate School of Ancient Studies, Germany Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK)
Archaeology and Religion in South Asia
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Taylor & Francis Inc
2017-11-29
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