The changing gaze: regions and the constructions of early India/ Bhairabi Prasad Sahu

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Regions and the Constructions of Early India. -- Part 1: Early patterns of social and cultural change. Brahmanical Conception of Origin of Jatis: A Study of Manusmrti ; Conception of the Kali Age in Early India: Perspectives from the Regions ; Varṇa, Jati, and the Shaping of Early Oriya Society ; Profiling of Daksina Kosala: The Making of an Early Historical Subregion?. -- Part II: The trajectory of regional polities. Ways of Seeing: History and Historiography of the State in Early India ; The Early State in Orissa: From the Perspective of Changing Forms of Patronage and Legitimation ; Characterizing Early Medieval Indian Polity: The Case of Daksina Kosala and Beyond ; Legitimation, Ideology, and State in Early India. -- Part III: The shaping of regional rural societies. Mapping the Patterns of Regional Land Systems and Rural Society ; Agrarian Changes and the Peasantry in Early Medieval Orissa ; Shifting the Gaze: Facets of Sub-regional Agrarian Economies ; Dissent and Protest in Early Indian Societies: Some Historiographic Remarks.