Cover ; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Introduction; SECTION I Religion and Region; 1 Sanchi: The History of the Patronage of an Ancient Buddhist Establishment; 2 Nagarjunakonda: Buddhism in the 'City of Victory'; 3 Cults and Shrines in Early Historical Mathura (c. 200 BC-AD 200); 4 Early Medieval Orissa: The Data and the Debate; SECTION II Archaeologists and the Modern Histories of Ancient Sites; 5 Archaeologists and Architectural Scholars in 19th Century India; 6 Amaravati: The Dismembering ofthe Mahācaitya (1797-1886)
7 Buddhism, Archaeology, and the Nation: Nagarjunakonda (1926-2006)8 Exile and Return: The Reinvention of Buddhism and Buddhist Sites in Modern India; SECTION III The Intersectionof Political Ideas and Practice; 9 Governing the State and the Self: Political Philosophy and Practice in the Edicts of Aśoka; 10 Politics, Violence, and War in Kāmandaka's Nītisāra; 11 The Power of a Poet: Kingship, Empire, and War in Kālidāsa's Raghuvaṁ śa; SECTION IV Looking beyond India to Asia ; 12 Gifts from Other Lands: Southeast Asian Religious Endowments in India
13 Politics, Piety, and Patronage: The Burmese Engagement with BodhgayāAbout the Author; Index
Summary
A major contribution to the different perspectives and issues central to understanding ancient India
