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- Title: Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval India (Book Review)
- Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 190 KB
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Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval India. By DAUD ALI. Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society, vol. 10. Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2004. Pp. xx + 296. $75. This ambitious and persuasively written work exists in something of a time-warp. The term "medieval" in the title (if we are to judge by the book's content) extends all the way back to the close of the Vedic age and at the other end (by the same token) excludes any reference to the Moslem period. The "classical" period has vanished. But this is not surprising, inasmuch as "time" (as a real factor in human affairs) has also largely disappeared--it has been replaced by "theory" (by definition timeless). But be not alarmed--what we have here is "classical" social history exhibiting itself in a very new parure, and the surprising nomenclature is intended no doubt to shock us out of our old habits of thought. (1)
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