TY  - GEN
AU  - Kulke, Hermann (Ed.)
AU  - Sahu, Bhairabi Prasad 
TI  - Routledge handbook of the state in premodern India
SN  - 9781032332253
U1  - 954 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Political customs and rites
KW  - Religion and politics
KW  - India
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Indian history
N1  - Includes index and references
N2  - 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.

https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-the-State-in-Premodern-India/Kulke-Sahu/p/book/9780367558970
ER  -