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Antiquities. --- Archaeology --- Archaeology. --- Archaeological Survey of India. --- Archæological Survey of India. --- Bombay (India : State) --- India --- India --- India. --- Antiquities --- Antiquities

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The eighteenth century in South Asian history is a period of great dynamism and a critical phase in the historical trajectory of the subcontinent. This book focuses on the merchants and manufacturers of Gujarat, who amidst complex political developments succeeded in preserving their autonomy and freedom in the market place. By spotting economic growth in the late eighteenth century, this study rejects the constructed dualism between a seventeenth century of great progress and an eighteenth century of chaos and decline.

Businesspeople --- History --- Gujarat (India) --- Economic conditions --- Politics and government --- Business people --- Business persons --- Businesspersons --- Entrepreneurs --- Kujarāt (India) --- Gujarath (India) --- Gujarāta (India) --- Гуджарат (India) --- Gujarat, India (State) --- Professional employees --- Bombay (India : State) --- Gujarat.

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A study of the system of political stratification and the pattern of political alliances in rural Western Maharashtra. Based on fieldwork in a large village, a nearby market town and taluka headquarters, and political institutions in the surrounding countryside, the first half of the book is a full examination of the phenomenon of regional dominance originally described by Adrian Mayer. The second part is a detailed study of the pattern of political alliances from village to district level. Dr Carter's central concern is with the manner in which the pattern of political alliances is shaped by political stratification. Tracing the relationships between these alliances and such factors as political stratification, political arenas, caste, class, and kinship, Dr Carter demonstrates that much Indian political behaviour which has been regarded as irrational or as a sign of an immature, tradition-bound and unstable system may be understood more usefully as a rational response to the conditions of political action in rural India.

Internal politics --- Political sociology --- Maharashtra --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Elite (Social sciences). --- Maharashtra (India) --- Rural conditions --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Elites (Social sciences) --- Leadership --- Power (Social sciences) --- Social classes --- Social groups --- Rural conditions. --- Maharashtra, India (State) --- Bombay (India : State) --- Maharashtra (India) - Rural conditions

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In Herrschergenealogie und religiöses Patronat , Annette Schmiedchen analyses some 250 inscriptions from the time of the early medieval royal dynasties of the Rāṣṭrakūṭas, Śilāhāras, and Yādavas, who reigned in central India from the 8th to the 13th centuries. The information derived from copper-plate charters and stone inscriptions primarily consists of genealogies of the ruling kings as well as of data regarding their religious foundations and endowments and the donations of other members of society. Annette Schmiedchen shows how genealogical accounts were modified to legitimize individual claims to power, and she convincingly proves that the 10th and 11th centuries were a period of religious change, which witnessed a shift in patronage patterns and a closer link between Vedic Brahmanism and Hindu temple worship.

Royal houses --- Inscriptions --- Jainism --- Religions --- Epigraphs (Inscriptions) --- Epigraphy --- Inscription --- Paleography --- Epigraphists --- Dynasties (Royal houses) --- Royal families --- Royalty --- Kings and rulers --- History. --- Rashtrakutas. --- Śilāhāras. --- Yadava dynasty. --- Maharashtra (India) --- Deccan (India) --- Maharashtra, India (State) --- Bombay (India : State) --- Central Plateau (India) --- Deccan Plateau (India) --- Dekkan (India) --- Religion --- Genealogy

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This volume offers an overview of the origins and main religious and doctrinal characteristics of the Mahanubhavs, the ascetic, devotional sect that arose in 13th century Maharashtra.

Mahānubhāva. --- Hindu sects. --- Hinduism --- Sects, Hindu --- Brahmanism --- Mahānu-bhāva --- Mahātmā (Sect) --- Mānabhāva --- Mānbhāo --- Mānbhāu --- Mānbhāv --- Hindu sects --- Sects --- Cults --- Mahānubhāva --- History. --- Doctrines. --- Maharashtra (India) --- Religion. --- Alternative religious movements --- Cult --- Cultus --- Marginal religious movements --- New religions --- New religious movements --- NRMs (Religion) --- Religious movements, Alternative --- Religious movements, Marginal --- Religious movements, New --- Religions --- Maharashtra, India (State) --- Bombay (India : State)