The State in India, 1000-1700
- 其他作者: Kulke, Hermann.
- 出版: Delhi : Oxford University Press 1995.
- 稽核項: x, 367 p. :ill., map ;23 cm.
- 叢書名: Oxford in India readings.
- 標題: Politics and government. , India , India Politics and government. , History. , India History.
- ISBN: 0195631277 , 9780195631272
- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (p. [352]-367).
- 系統號: 005126685
- 資料類型: 圖書
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Since the 1940s, revaluations of the nature of the State have been a major preoccupation among historians worldwide. There has been a debate on the extent to which the State is independent of the interests of the ruling class. Pre-colonial India provides a unique testing ground for such debates, for it provides examples of State forms which vary enormously. Yet serious consideration of the nature of State forms in India was often overwhelmed by a focus on 'caste' and 'brahminism'. Now, however, as Professor Kulke demonstrates in his Introduction to this book - which consists of all the major essays on this important theme - several basic forms of the State can be isolated. Although the notion of 'centralized empire' still dominates the historiography, alternative models such as 'the segmentary state' and 'the patrimonial state' have given rise to productive debates.
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