Kulke, Hermann (Ed.) <br/><br/>
Routledge handbook of the state in premodern India 

 - London:  Routledge,  2022. 
 - ill.; xix, 574p.;  hbk;  25cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes index and references  
<br/><br/> This handbook presents a multilayered and multidimensional history of state formation in premodern India. It explores dense and rich local and subregional historiography from the mid-first millennium BC to the eighteenth century in South Asia. Shifting the focus away from economic and political factors, this handbook revises the conventional understanding of states and empires and locates them in their quotidian conduct and activity on socio-cultural and concomitant factors. Comprehensive in scope, this handbook addresses a range of themes connected with the idea of state formation in the subcontinent. It includes discussions and debates on ritual practices and the Brahmanical order in early India; the Delhi Sultanate and role of Sultans among the Hindu kings; the cosmopolitan ‘Islamicate’ cultural influences on Puranic Hinduism; cultural background of the Mughal state.<br/><br/>https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-the-State-in-Premodern-India/Kulke-Sahu/p/book/9780367558970 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781032332253 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Political customs and rites<br/>Religion and politics<br/>India<br/>Politics and government<br/>Indian history
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>954  / KUL