Precolonial India in Practice: Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval AndhraThe society of traditional India is frequently characterized as static and dominated by caste. This study challenges older interpretations, arguing that medieval India was actually a time of dynamic change and fluid social identities. Using records of religious endowments from Andhra Pradesh, author Cynthia Talbot reconstructs a regional society of the precolonial past as it existed in practice. |
Contents
Medieval India A History in Transition | 1 |
1 Andhras Age of Inscriptions 10001650 | 18 |
2 The Society of Kakatiya Andhra | 48 |
3 Temples and Temple Patronage in Kakatiya Andhra | 87 |
4 The Kakatiya Political Network | 126 |
5 The Kakatiyas in Telugu Historical Memory | 174 |
Toward a New Model of Medieval India | 208 |
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agrarian Andhra inscriptions Andhra Pradesh Atmakur birudas bōya brahman caste Chalukyas chiefs Chola coastal Andhra Cuddapah cultural Deccan deity Delhi donations donors Draksharama dynasty elites epigraphic Ganapati Godavari groups Guntur District History Hyderabad IAP-C IAP-N individuals irrigated jāti Kakatiya Andhra Kakatiya dynasty Kakatiya period Kakatiya Prataparudra Kakatiya rulers Kandukur Kannada Karnataka kingdom Krishna Krishna River land language lineages lord mahārāja major temples medieval Andhra medieval India medieval South military Nalgonda Nayaka NDI Darsi NDI Kavali NDI Ongole Nellore Ongole overlord Padmanayakas peasant percent political network Prakasam Prakasam District Prataparudra Prataparudra Caritramu rāju Rapur Rayalasima Recherla records Reddi region religious gifts religious patronage ritual royal Rudradeva Rudramadevi Sanskrit sect Shaiva social society Somasekhara Sarma South India status titles Stein subcastes subregion sultanate Taluk Tamil Nadu tank taxes Telangana Telugu warrior territory thirteenth century Vengi Venkataramanayya Vijayanagara village Warangal X X X X X X