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ANCIENT RAJASTHAN: Research Development, Epigraphic Evidence on Political Power Centres, and Historical Perspectives

By :- Dilip K. Chakrabarti

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Pages: xiv+226

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ISBN-13: 978-81-7305-626-0

Place: New Delhi

Edition: 1st

Publisher: ARYAN BOOKS INTERNATIONAL

Size: 22cm x 28cm

Product Year: 2019

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This volume begins by offering a detailed review of the major stages and character of ancient historical research in Rajasthan till c.1950, highlighting the way in which this research had distinguishing features of its own and how James Tod played a stellar role in the process of establishing Rajasthan as a distinct field of scholarly enquiry. In the next part, the problem has been to understand the location of the Asokan centre of Bairat in relation to its links both with Delhi where a Minor Rock Edict is located and with Ujjain in western Malwa from where the route to the Deccan is fairly open. The fact that a section of the Deccan routes was reaching Bairat in Alwar, and through Bairat, Delhi is an important point in the study of ancient Indian historical geography. The volume then takes up the issue of the ancient political power centres of the region on the basis of the surviving inscriptions. While doing so, the volume examines some geographical and commercial points in the early gazetteers of Rajputana and also establishes the premise that the Aravalli region was an independent area of both food-production and copper metallurgy. The inscriptions are then subjected to close scrutiny with attention to some of the terms commonly used in this context – 'feudalism', 'origin of Rajputs', 'early mediaeval' and 'state formation'. The inscriptional data is examined both in the light of their basic geography and history and show the inadequacy and illogicality of these terms to explain Rajasthan's history.

Preface

1. Research Developments (from the Beginning to c. 1950)
I. Introduction
II. James Tod 3
III. Lieutenant Alexander Burnes of the Bombay Army (1833)
IV. J.S. Burt
V. James Fergusson
VI. E. Impey
VII. Alexander Cunningham
VIII. A.C.L. Carlleyle
IX. H.B.W. Garrick
X. The Beginning of the Study of Inscriptions from Rajasthan
XI. The Beginning of Excavations: T.H. Hendley, 1885
XII. Nagari: Kavi Raj Shyamal Das (1887)
XIII. The Onset of the Twentieth Century
XIV. The Work of D.R. Bhandarkar
XIV.1 Kotah State
XIV.1.1 Mukandarra
XIV.1.2 Amvam
XIV.1.3 Kollana
XIV.1.4 Sirod
XIV.1.5 Atru
XIV.1.6 Kansua/Kansuvam
XIV.2 Bundi State
XIV.2.1 Keshorai-Patan
XIV.3 Mewar State
XIV.3.1 Bijolia and Other Temples of the Area
XIV.3.2 Menal and Mandalgarh
XIV.3.3 Nagari
XIV.3.4 Chitorgarh
XIV.3.5 Eklingji
XIV.3.6 Sas-Bahu
XIV.4 Sirohi State
XIV.5 Mallani District
XIV.6 Pali District
XIV.7 Kumbhalgarh, Nadol
XIV.8 Ajmer, Sojat and Other Areas
XIV.9 Jalor and Other Areas XIV.10 Former Jodhpur State
XV. V.S. Sukthankar’s Work and the Work after His Departure
XVI. The Work of L.P. Tessitori
XVII. More Field-Archaeological Research till the 1930s
XVII.1 Mandor 65
XVII.2 Osia
XVII.3 Bhandarkar on Nagari (1920)
XVII.4 D.R. Sahni’s Excavations at Bairat
XVII.5 D.R. Sahni’s Work at Dausa
XVII.6 D.R. Sahni’s Work at Chatsu
XVII.7 D.R. Sahni on the Antiquity of Amber
XVII.8 The Details of Sahni’s Excavations at Bairat
XVII.9 D.R. Sahni’s and K.N. Puri’s Excavations at Rairh
XVII.10 D.R. Sahni’s Excavations at Sambhar
XVIII. Some Major Points of Epigraphical Research in Rajasthan
XVIII.1 Annual Reports of the Ajmer Museum, from
Pandit G.H. Ojha
XVIII.1.1 1935
XVIII.1.2 1936
XVIII.1.3 1937
XVIII.1.4 1938
XIX. The Yupa Inscriptions of Rajasthan
XX. Some Major Aspects of Ancient Historical Research on Rajasthan
after 1950
XX.1 Rang Mahal
XX.2 Early Historic Levels of Ahar, Noh, Jodhpura and Balathal
XXI. Two Recently Excavated Later Historic Sites, Chandravati and
Juna Khera, Nadol
XXI.1 Chandravati
XX.2 Juna Khera (Nadol)
XXII. Concluding Observations on the History of Historical and
Archaeological Research Developments in Rajasthan
2. Ancient History of Rajasthan from the Beginning of the Historical Period
to c. 700 AD
I. Introduction
II. The Aravallis as an Independent Area of Agriculture and Metallurgy
III. Miscellaneous Issues Regarding Mahajanapadas in Rajasthan
IV. Some Geographical Implications
IV.1 Bairat
V. Northeast Rajasthan as a Copper Belt
VI. Bairat as the Terminal Point of the Route Coming from Ujjain
VI.1 Sambar
VI.2 Rairh
VI.3 Nagar, Uniara
VI.4 Nagari
VII. The Issue of Coins 132
3. The Evidence of Inscriptions on the Political Power-Centres of Rajasthan
from the Gupta–post-Gupta Period to the Thirteenth Century
I. Introduction
II. The Geographical Background of the Major Power Centres of
Rajasthan: the Testimony of the Early Gazetteers
II.1 Mewar
II.2 Ajmer
II.3 Jaipur
II.4 Jaisalmer
II.5 Jodhpur
II.6 Mallani or the Barmer Sector of British India
II.7 Jhalawar
II.8 Sirohi
II.9 Jaisalmer, Jodhpur and Bikaner as Trading Zones
II.10 Observations on the Testimony of the Gazetteers
III. The Testimony of Inscriptions
III.1 Eastern Rajasthan: Bharatpur and Kota-Jhalawar (Hadoti)
Belt
III.2 Observations on the Geographical Area Represented by
the Above-mentioned Inscriptions
IV. Mewar Residency, Dungarpur, Banswara: The Mewar Belt
V. The Trunk of the Guhila Lineage
VI. The Dungarpur-Banswara Belt
VII. Sirohi, Barmer, Jalore
VIII. Marwar or Roughly Rajasthan, Northwest of the Aravallis
VIII.1 The Gurjara-Pratiharas
VIII.2 The Chahamanas of Sakambhari (Sambar) and
Ajmer/Ajayameru
4. Summary and Discussion

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Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti is Emeritus Professor of South Asian Archaeology at Cambridge University where he has also been a Senior Fellow of McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. He is associated with Vivekananda International Foundation, a major think tank of Delhi, as Distinguished Fellow and editor of its eleven volume series on the history of ancient India.
Born in 1941, Professor Chakrabarti was educated at Calcutta University where he was awarded Ph.D. in Archaeology in 1973. He held appointments in Calcutta University (1963-77), Delhi University (1977-90) and Visva Bharati (1980-81) before he joined Cambridge University in 1990 and retired from there in 2008. During this period he also held scholarships, fellowships and teaching assignments in Cambridge, Edinburgh, Tehran, New York, Paris, Jahangirnagar in Bangladesh, and Armidale in Australia. He lectured at several Indian universities including Allahabad, Banaras, Delhi, Pondicherry and Visva Bharati. He attended a number of conferences in India, UK, USA, USSR and China. He successfully supervised many graduate students in Delhi and Cambridge.
Professor Chakrabarti's research has been characterised by originality, scholarship and a solid grip of the historical problems involved. Nobody of his generation has been as steadfast in trying to understand the historical and archaeological nuances of the subcontinent as he has been throughout his career. In addition to 200-odd articles and reviews, he has so far published 29 authored books and 12 edited volumes (under single/multiple editorship).
He has received a number of honours : D.Litt. (Honoris Causa) of M.J.P. Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, Dr. V.S. Wakankar Rashtriya Samman (State honour) of Madhya Pradesh government in Archaeology, S.C. Chakrabarti medal of Asiatic Society, Kolkata, fellowship and Senarath Paranavitana award of the International Association of Asian Heritage, Sri Lanka, and Gurudev Ranade award of the&

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