CONTENTS:-
Part I: Early Patterns of Social and Cultural Change
1. Brahmanical Conception of Origin of Jatis: A StudyofManusmrti
2. Conception of the Kali Age in Early India: Perspectivesfromthe Regions
3. Var?a, Jati, and the Shaping of Early Oriya Society
4. Profiling of Daksina Kosala: The Making of an EarlyHistoricalSubregion?
Part II: The Trajectory of Regional Polities
5. Ways of Seeing: History and Historiography of the StateinEarly India
6. The Early State in Orissa: From the Perspective ofChangingForms of Patronage and Legitimation
7. Characterizing Early Medieval Indian Polity: The CaseofDaksina Kosala and Beyond
8. Legitimation, Ideology, and State in Early India;
Part III: The Shaping Of Regional Rural Societies
9. Mapping the Patterns of Regional Land Systems andRuralSociety
10. Agrarian Changes and the Peasantry in EarlyMedievalOrissa
11. Shifting the Gaze: Facets of Sub-regionalAgrarianEconomies
12. Dissent and Protest in Early Indian Societies:SomeHistoriographic Remarks
