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. |
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Andhras Age of Inscriptions 10001650 | 19 |
The Society of Kakatiya Andhra | 48 |
xiii | 74 |
11 | 81 |
16 | 90 |
Temples and Temple Patronage in Kakatiya Andhra | 95 |
50 | 103 |
299 | 169 |
The Kakatiyas in Telugu Historical Memory | 174 |
67 | 198 |
Toward a New Model of Medieval India | 208 |
Andhra Inscriptions 10001649 | 216 |
Kakatiya Andhra Inscriptions | 226 |
Notes | 259 |
References | 265 |
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agrarian Andhra inscriptions Andhra Pradesh birudas bōya brahman caste Chalukya chiefs Chola coastal Andhra Cuddapah cultural Deccan deity Delhi donations donors Draksharama dynasty East Godavari economic elites epigraphic Ganapati groups Guntur District historical Hyderabad IAP-C IAP-N individuals irrigated jāti Kakatiya Andhra Kakatiya dynasty Kakatiya period Kakatiya Prataparudra Kakatiya rulers Kakatiya subordinates Kandukur Kannada Karnataka kingdom Krishna Krishna River land late Kakatiya lineages lord mahārāja major temples medieval Andhra medieval South India military minor Nalgonda Nayaka NDI Ongole Nellore Ongole overlord Padmanayakas patrons peasant percent Prakasam Prakasam District Prataparudra Prataparudra Caritramu precolonial rāju Rayalasima records Reddi region reign religious gifts religious patronage ritual royal Rudradeva Rudramadevi Sanskrit social society Somasekhara Sarma South India southern Andhra status titles Stein subregion sultanate Taluk Tamil Nadu tank taxes Telangana Telugu warrior temple patronage territory Velama Vengi Venkataramanayya Vijayanagara village Warangal worship X X X X zone
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