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Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval India

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Scholars have long studied clasical Sanskrit culture in almost total isolation from its courtly context. As the first book-length study to focus exclusively on the royal court as a social and cultural institution, this books fills a gap in the literature. Using both literary and inscriptional sources, it begins with the rise and spread of royal households and political hierachies from the wider Gupta period (c. 350-750), and traces the emergence of a coherent courtly worldview, which would remain for almost a millenium to 1200. Later chapters examine key features of courtly life which have been all but ignored by the previous literature on ancient Indian society: manners, ethics, concepts of personal beauty, and theories of disposition. The books ends with a sustained examination of the theory and practice of erotic love in teh context of the wider social dynamics and anxieties which faced the people of the court.

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954.021 22 ALI c

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954.021 22 ALI c

Publisher

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press., 2004

Collation

xx+296p.;ill.:15,5x23cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-521-81627-0

Classification

900

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Subject(s)

Justice
Law
Court

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