The State in India, 1000-1700

by Kulke, Hermann

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Title Statements

Full title :The State in India, 1000-1700 / edited by Hermann Kulke.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1995.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Delhi
Language:eng
Publication Date:1995.

Notes

Reprint. Originally published: 1995.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 367 pages : : illustrations, map ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0195631277, 9780195631272
oclc:ocn269392334
LC Classification:DS436
Dewey Decimal:954

Introduction: The Study of the State in Pre-modern India / Hermann Kulke -- How Feudal was Indian Feudalism? (revised and updated, 1992) / Ram Sharan Sharma -- Was There Feudalism in Indian History? / Harbans Mukhia -- The Segmentary State: Interim Reflections / Burton Stein -- State Formation in South India, 850-1280 / James Heitzman -- Political Processes and the Structure of Polity in Early Medieval India / Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya -- The Early and the Imperial Kingdom: A Processural Model of Integrative State Formation in Early Medieval India / Hermann Kulke -- Towards an Interpretation of the Mughal Empire / M. Athar Ali -- The Patrimonial-Bureaucratic Empire of the Mughals / Stephen P. Blake -- State Formation and Rajput Myth in Tribal Central India / Surajit Sinha / Edited by Georg Berkemer.