The Penguin History of Early India

by Romila Thapar

  Narayanan, M. G. S., Cultural Symbiosis in Kerala (Trivandrum, 1972)

  Pande, G. C., The Life and Thought of Shankaracharya (Delhi, 1994)

  Mayeda, S., A Thousand Teachings (Tokyo, 1979)

  Clothey, F. W., The Many Faces of Murugan: The History and Meaning of a South Indian God (The Hague, 1978)

  THE ROLE OF THE TEMPLE

  Stein, B. (ed.), South Indian Temples (Delhi, 1978)

  Tartakov, G. M., The Durga Temple at Aihole (Delhi, 1997)

  Champakalakshmi, R., The Hindu Temple (Delhi, 2001)

  Michell, G., Pattadakal (Delhi, 2002)

  Some Sources in Translation

  South Indian Inscriptions

  Sewell, R. and Aiyangar, S. K. (eds), Historical Inscriptions of South India (Madras, 1932)

  Pope, G. U., The Sacred Kural (London, 1888)

  Parathasarathy, R., The Tale of an Anklet (New York, 1993)

  Danielou, A., Manimekhalai (New Delhi, 1993)

  Ryder, A. W., Dandin’s Dasakumaracharita (Chicago, 1927)

  Kingsbury, F. and Philips, G. E., Hymns of the Tamil Shaivite Saints, (Calcutta, 1921)

  11 The Peninsula: Establishing Authorities and Structures

  THE POLITICS OF THE PENINSULA

  Nilakanta Sastri, K. A., The Cholas, repr. (Madras, 1975)

  Subbarayalu, Y., Political Geography of the Chola Country (Madras, 1970)

  Derrett, J. D. M., The Hoysalas (Oxford, 1957)

  Sheikh Ali, B. (ed.), The Hoysala Dynasty (Mysore, 1972)

  Spencer, G. W., The Politics of Expansion. The Chola Conquest of Sri Lanka and Sri Vijaya (Madras, 1983)

  Talbot, C., Pre-Colonial India in Practice (Delhi, 2001)

  Narayanan, M. G. S., Perumals of Kerala (Calicut, 1996)

  Nilakantha Sastri, K. A., The Pandyan Kingdom (Madras, 1982)

  Desai, B. P. (ed.), A History of Karnataka (Dharwar, 1970)

  Altekar, A. S., The Rashtrakutas and Their Times, 2nd rev. edn (Poona, 1967)

  Krishnan, K. G., Studies in South Indian History and Epigraphy (Madras, 1981)

  STRUCTURES OF AN AGRARIAN SYSTEM

  Gururajachar, S., Some Aspects of Economic and Social Life in Karnataka (AD 1000-1300) (Mysore, 1974)

  Kuppuswamy, G. R., Economic Conditions in Karnataka, AD 973-AD 1336 (Dharwar, 1975)

  Stein, B., Peasant State and Society in Medieval India (Delhi, 1980)

  Jha, D. N. (ed.), Feudal Social Formation in Early India (Delhi, 1987)

  Karashima, N., History and Society in South India, repr. (Delhi, 2001)

  Sundaram, K., Studies in Economic and Social Conditions in Medieval Andhra (Machilipatnam, 1968)

  Parasher-Sen, A. (ed.), Social and Economic History of the Early Decan: Some Interpretations (New Delhi, 1993)

  Ludden, D., Peasant History in South India (Princeton, 1985)

  Chattopadhyaya, B. D., Aspects of Rural Settlements and Rural Society in Early Medieval India (Calcutta, 1990)

  Gros, F. and Nagaswamy, R., Uttaramerur: Légendes, Histoire, Monuments (Pondicherry, 1970)

  TOWNS AND MARKETS

  Hall, K. R., Trade and Statecraft in the Age of the Cholas (Delhi, 1980)

  Abraham, M., Two Medieval Merchant Guilds of South India (New Delhi, 1988)

  Champakalakshmi, R., Trade, Ideology and Urbanisation (Delhi, 1996)

  Ramaswamy, V., Textiles and Weavers in Medieval South India (New Delhi, 1985)

  Goitein, S. D., From the Mediterranean to India (New Jersey, 1974)

  Chattopadhyaya, B. D., Coins and Currency Systems in South India (New Delhi, 1977)

  Mahalingam, T. V., Kancipuram in Early South Indian History (Bombay, 1969)

  Srinivasan, C. R., Kanchipuram Through the Ages (Delhi, 1979)

  THE TEMPLE AS AN INSTITUTION

  Settar, S., The Hoysala Temples (Dharwar, 1992)

  Meister, M. (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture, vol. I, 1, Lower Dravidadesa, 200 BC-AD 1324 (Philadelphia, 1983)

  Sundaram, K., The Simhachalam Temple (Waltair, 1969)

  Thapar, R., ‘Cultural Transactions and Early India – Patronage’, in History and Beyond (Delhi, 2000)

  Pillai, K. K., The Suchindaram Temple (Madras, 1963)

  Nagaswamy, R., Gangaikondacholapuram (Madras, 1970)

  Stein, B. (ed.), South Indian Temples. An Analytical Reconsideration (New Delhi, 1978)

  LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

  Meenakshi, K., Literary Criticism in Tamil and Sanskrit (Chennai, 2000)

  Shulman, D. D., The King and the Clown in South Indian Myth and Poetry (Princeton, 1988)

  Shulman, D. D., Tamil Temple Myths. Sacrifice and Divine Marriage in the South Indian Saiva Tradition (Princeton, 1980)

  Peterson, I., Poems to Siva, the Hymns of the Tamil Saints (Princeton, 1989)

  Zvelebil, K., Companion Studies to the History of Tamil Literature (Leiden, 1992)

  RELIGIONS AND IDEOLOGIES

  Ramaswamy, V., Divinity and Deviance. Women in Vaishnavism (Delhi, 1990)

  Ramaswamy, V., Walking Naked: Women, Society, Spirituality in South India (Simla, 1997)

  Zvelebil, K., The Irulas of the Blue Mountains (Syracuse, 1988)

  Hardy, F., Viraha-Bhakti: The Early History of Krsna Devotion in South India (Delhi, 1983)

  Lorenzen, D. N., The Kapalikas and Kalamukhas: Two Lost Saivite Sects (New Delhi, 1975)

  Sontheimer, G. D., Pastoral Deities in Western India (New York, 1989)

  Carman, J. B., The Theology of Ramanuja. An Essay in Interreligious Understanding (Yale, 1974)

  Ayyar, C. V. N., Origin and Early History of Shaivism in South India, repr. (Madras, 1974)

  Desai, P. B., Jainism in South India and Some Jaina Epigraphs (Sholapur, 1957)

  Singh, R. B. P., Jainism in Early Medieval Karnataka (Delhi, 1975)

  Some Sources in Translation

  Epigraphia Indica

  Epigraphia Carnatica

  South Indian Inscriptions

  Panchmukhi, R. S., Karnataka Inscriptions (Dharvar, 1941)

  Rice, L., Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions (London, 1909)

  Elliot, W., Coins of Southern India, repr. (Varanasi, 1970)

  Biddulph, C. H., Coins of the Cholas (Varanasi, 1968)

  12 The Politics of Northern India

  THE STRUGGLE OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS

  Ray, H. C., Dynastic History of Northern India, vols I and II, repr. (New Delhi, 1973)

  Puri, B. N., The History of the Gurjara Pratiharas (Bombay, 1957)

  Fox, R. G. (ed.), Realm and Region in Traditional India (Delhi, 1977)

  KINGDOMS BEYOND THE GANGES HEARTLAND

  Maclean, D. N., Religion and Society in Arab Sind (Leiden, 1989)

  Majumdar, A. K., Chaulukyas of Gujarat (Bombay, 1956)

  Morrison, B., Political Centres and Cultural Regions of Early Bengal (Tucson, 1970)

  Majumdar, R. C., The History of Bengal, vol. I, 2nd edn (Patna, 1971)

  Singh Upinder, Kings, Brahmanas and Temples in Orissa (Delhi, 1993)

  Mahtab, K. H., The History of Orissa, vols I and II (Cuttack, 1959-60)

  Mitra, S. K., The Early Rulers of Khajuraho (Calcutta, 1958)

  Goetz, H., Studies in the History and Art of Kashmir and the Indian Himalayas (Wiesbaden, 1969)

  Barua, K. L., Early History of Kamarupa, 2nd edn (Gauhati, 1966)

  RAJPUTS

  Sharma, D., Early Chauhan Dynasties (Delhi, 1959)

  Sharma, D. (ed.), Rajasthan Through the Ages (Bikaner, 1966)

  Asopa, J. N., Origin of the Rajputs (Delhi, 1976)

  Bhatia, P., The Paramaras (Delhi, 1970)

  Chattopadhyaya, B. D., The Making of Early Medieval India (New Delhi, 1994)

  THE CREATION OF NEW SETTLEMENTS

  Sharma, R. S., Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India, rev. edn (Delhi, 1991)

  Sharma, R. S. and Jha, V. (eds), Indian Society: Historical Probings (New Delhi, 1974)

  Pouchepadass, J. and St
ern, H. (eds), From Kingship to State, the Political in the Anthropology and History of the Indian World (Paris, 1991)

  CENTRAL ASIAN INTERVENTION

  Wink, A., Al-Hind, The Making of the Indo-Islamic World, vol. I (Delhi, 1999)

  Nazim, M., The Life and Times of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna, 2nd edn (New Delhi, 1971)

  Habib, M., Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna, 2nd edn (New Delhi, 1971)

  Thapar, R., Narratives and the Making of History, two lectures (Delhi, 2000)

  Bosworth, C. E., The Ghaznavids: Their Empire in Afghanistan and Eastern Iran, 994-1040 (Edinburgh, 1963)

  Bosworth, C. E., The Medieval History of Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia (London, 1977)

  Eaton, R. M., Essays on Islam and Indian History (Delhi, 2000)

  Davis, R. H., Lives of Indian Images (Princeton, 1997)

  Foltz, R. C., Religions of the Silk Road (London, 1999)

  Rehman, A., The Last Two Dynasties of the Shahis: an Analysis of their History, Archaeology, Coinage and Palaeography (Islamabad, 1979)

  THE COMING OF TURKISH RULE

  Habibullah, A. B. M., The foundation of Muslim Rule in India (Allahabad, 1961)

  Gommand, J. J. L. and Kolff, D. H. A. (ed.), Warfare and Weaponry in South Asia, 1000-1800 (Delhi, 2001)

  Chattopadhyaya, B. D. Representing the Other?: Sanskrit sources and the Muslims (New Delhi, 1998)

  Some Sources in Translation

  Stein, M. A., Kalhana’s Rajatarangini, a Chronicle of the Kings of Kashmir, repr. (Delhi, 1979)

  Chachnama in Elliot, H. M. and Dowson, J., The History of India as Told by its own Historians, vol. I, repr. (Delhi, 1996)

  Elliot, H. M. and Dowson, J., The History of India as Told by its own Historians, vols II and III, repr. (Delhi, 1996)

  Sachau, E. C., Alberuni’s India, vols I and II, repr. (Delhi, 1964)

  13 Northern India: Distributive Political Economies and Regional Cultures

  THEORIES OF HISTORICAL CHANGE

  Sircar, D. C., Landlordism and Tenancy in Ancient and Medieval India as Revealed by Epigraphical Records (Lucknow, 1969)

  Sharma, R. S., Indian Feudalism (Calcutta, 1965)

  Sharma, R. S., Social Changes in Early Medieval India (circa AD 500-1200) (Delhi, 1969)

  Sharma, R. S., Urban Decay in India, c. AD 300-c. 1000 (Delhi, 1987)

  Sharma, R. S., Early Medieval Indian Society (Delhi, 2001)

  Byres, T. J. and Mukhia, H. (eds), Feudalism and non-European Societies (London, 1985)

  Jha, D. N. (ed.), Feudal Social Formation in Early India (Delhi, 1987)

  Jha, D. N., The Feudal Order (New Delhi, 2000)

  Chattopadhyaya, B. D., The Making of Early Medieval India (Delhi, 1994)

  DISTRIBUTIVE POLITICAL ECONOMIES

  Chattopadhyaya, B. D., Aspects of Rural Settlements and Rural Society in Early Medieval India (Calcutta, 1990)

  Om, Prakash, Early Indian Grants and State Economy (Allahabad, 1988)

  Raychaudhuri, T. and Habib, I. (eds), Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. I (Cambridge, 1982)

  Singh, Upinder, Kings, Brahmanas and Temples in Orissa (Delhi, 1993)

  Chaudhary, A. K., Early Medieval Village in North-eastern India (AD 600-1200) (Calcutta, 1971)

  Gopal, L., The Economic Life of Northern India (Varanasi, 1965)

  Chaudhuri, K. N., Asia Before Europe (Cambridge, 1990)

  KINGS AND POLITICS

  Kulke, H., Kings and Cults. State Formation and Legitimation in India and Southeast Asia (New Delhi, 1993)

  Kulke, H. (ed.), The State in India, 1000-1700 (Delhi, 1997)

  Sinha, S. C., Tribal Polities and State Systems in Pre-Colonial Eastern and North Eastern India (New Delhi, 1987)

  Morrison, B. M., Lalmai, a Cultural Centre of Early Bengal (Seattle, 1974)

  URBANISM IN A NEW CONTEXT

  Deyell, J: S., Living Without Silver: The Monetary History of Early Medieval North India (Delhi, 1990)

  Jha, A. K., (ed.), Coinage, Trade and Economy (Nasik, 1991)

  Jain, V. K., Trade and Traders in Western India (AD 1000-1300) (New Delhi, 1990)

  Jain, K. C., Ancient Cities and Towns of Rajasthan (Delhi, 1972)

  Mukherjee, B. N., Post-Gupta Coinages of Bengal (Calcutta, 1989)

  Thakur, U., Mints and Minting in Ancient India (Varanasi, 1972)

  NEW SOCIAL TRENDS

  Yadava, B. N. S., Society and Culture in Twelfth Century North India (Allahabad, 1973)

  Jha, D. N. (ed.), Society and Ideology in India: Essays in Honour of Professor R. S. Sharma (Delhi, 1996)

  Gupta, C., The Kayasthas: A Study in the Formation and Early History of a Caste (Calcutta, 1996)

  Sharma, R. S., Social Changes in Early Medieval India, c. AD 500-1200 (Delhi, 1969)

  Dutta, S., Migrant Brahmanas in Northern India and their Settlements and General Impact c. AD 475-1030 (Delhi, 1989)

  LEARNING AND LITERATURE

  Lingat, C. R., The Classical Law of India (New Delhi, 1973)

  Pathak, V. S., Ancient Historians of India: A Study in Historical Biography (Bombay, 1966)

  Thapar, R., Exile and the Kingdom: Some Thoughts on the Ramayana (Bangalore, 1978)

  Chattopadhyaya, D. P., Science and Society in Ancient India (Calcutta, 1979)

  Sircar, D. C., Indian Epigraphy (Delhi, 1965)

  Warder, A. K., Indian Kavya Literature, 4 vols (Delhi, 1972-83)

  Dutta, B. B. and Singh, A. N., History of Hindu Mathematics (Lahore, 1935)

  Ray, P. C., A History of Hindu Chemistry, 2 vols, 2nd edn (Calcutta, 1925)

  MONUMENTS AND THEIR HISTORICAL ROLE

  Michell, G., The Hindu Temple: An Introduction to its Meaning and Forms (Chicago, 1998)

  Champakalakshmi, R., The Hindu Temple (New Delhi, 2001)

  Stoller Miller, B. (ed.), The Powers of Art: Patronage in Indian Culture (Delhi, 1992)

  Meister, M. and Dhaky, M. A., Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture vol. II. 1: Foundations of a North Indian Style c. 250 BC-AD 1100 (Delhi, 1980); vol. II. 2: Period of Early Maturity 700-900 (Delhi, 1971)

  Handa, D., Osian. History, Archaeology, Art and Architecture (Delhi, 1984)

  Desai, D., Khajuraho (Delhi, 2000)

  Desai, D., Erotic Sculpture of India (New Delhi, 1975)

  Dehejia, V., Yogini Cult and Temples (New Delhi, 1994)

  Thakur, L. S., Buddhism in the Western Himalaya (Delhi, 2002)

  RELIGIOUS MUTATIONS

  Coburn, T., Devi-Mahatmya: The Crystallisation of the Goddess Tradition (Delhi, 1984)

  Dehejia, V. (ed.), Devi: The Great Goddess (Ahmedabad, 1999)

  Jaini, P. S., Gender and Salvation: Jaina Debates on the Spiritual Liberation of Women (Delhi, 1992)

  Eischmann, A., Kulke, H. and Tripathi, G. C. (eds), The Cult ofjagannath and the Regional Tradition of Orissa (New Delhi, 1978)

  Thapar, R., Ancient Indian Social History: Some Interpretations (Delhi, 1978)

  Hazra, R. C., Studies in the Puranic Records on Hindu Rites and Customs, 2nd edn (Delhi, 1975)

  Banerjea J. N., The Development of Hindu Iconography (Calcutta, 1956)

  Woodroffe, J., Shakti and Sakta (Madras, 1956)

  Bhattacharya, N. N., History of the Tantric Religion (New Delhi, 1992)

  Bhattacharya, N. N., History of the Sakta Religion, 2nd edn (New Delhi, 1996)

  Chakrabarti, K., Religious Process, The Puranas and the Making of a Regional Tradition (Delhi, 2001)

  Banerjee, J. N., Puranic and Tantric Religion (Calcutta, 1966)

  Gupta, S., et al., Hindu Tantrism (Leiden, 1979)

  Some Sources in Translation

  Majumdar, N. G., Inscriptions of Bengal (Rajashahi, 1929)

  Mirashi, V. V., Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, vol. IV, parts 1 and 2: Inscriptions of the Kalachuri-Chedi Era (Ootacamund, 1929; 1955)

  Trivedi, H. V., Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, vol. VII, parts 1-3, Inscriptions of the Paramaras, Chandellas, Kachchhapagatas and Two Minor Dynasties (generally texts onl
y) (Delhi, 1991)

  Nambiar, S. K., Prabodhacandrodaya of Krsna Misra (Delhi, 1971)

  Majumdar, R. C., Basak, R. and Banerji, P. N., The Ramacaritam of Sandhyakaranandin (Rajashahi, 1939)

  Ph. Vogel, The Antiquities of Chamba State (Calcutta, 1911)

  Tawney, C. H. (tr.), The Ocean of Story (Kathasaritasagara), repr. (Delhi, 1968)

  Arnold, E., The Chaurapanchashika (London, 1986)

  Jha, G., Medhatithi Manubhashya (Calcutta, 1922-29)

  Stoler Miller, B., Love Song of the Dark Lord: Jayadeva’s Gita Govinda (New York, 1977)

  Tawney, C. H., The Prabandhachintamani of Merutunga Acarya (Calcutta, 1899)

  Williams, A., Tales from the Panchatantra (Oxford, 1930)

  General Bibliography

  The exclusion of some of the older authors from this General Bibliography as well as from the bibliographies attached to each chapter is not because their writings are no longer important, but because they are still far better known than some of the recent studies and the latter require mention.

  Basham, A. L. (ed.), The Legacy of India (Oxford, 1975)

  Basham, A. L., Studies in Indian History and Culture (Calcutta, 1964)

  Basham, A. L., The Wonder That Was India, 3rd edn (New York, 1971)

  Bhattacharya, S. and Thapar, R. (eds), Situating Indian History (New Delhi, 1986)

  Brough, J., Selections from Classical Sanskrit Literature (London, 1951)

  Conze, E., Buddhist Texts through the Ages (Oxford, 1954)

  Coomaraswami, A. K., History of Indian and Indonesian Art, repr. (Delhi, 1972)

  Cunningham, A., A Book of Indian Eras, repr. (Varanasi, 1970)

  Cunningham, A., The Ancient Geography of India, repr. (Varanasi, 1975)

  Dani, A. H., Indian Palaeography (Oxford, 1963)

  Datta, B. B. and Singh, A. N., History of Hindu Mathematics (Lahore, 1935)

  Ghoshal, U. N., History of Hindu Political Theories, 2nd edn (Oxford, 1927)

  Gupta, P. L., Coins, 4th edn (New Delhi, 1996)

  Harle, J., The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent (London, 1986)

  Huntington, S. L., The Art of Ancient India (New York, 1985)

  Kane, P. V., History of Dharmasastra, vols I-V (Poona, 1968-75)

  Kosambi, D. D., An Introduction to the Study of Indian History, repr. (Delhi, 1970)

  Kosambi, D. D., Myth and Reality (Bombay, 1962)

  Kosambi, D. D., Combined Method in Indology and Other Writings edited by B. D. Chattopadhyaya (Delhi, 2002)

  Kulke, H. and Rothermund, D., A History of India, 3rd edn (London, 1998)