COURTLY CULTURE AND POLITICAL LIFE IN EARLY MEDIEVAL INDIA by Daud Ali ( 9780521816274 )

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Title:

COURTLY CULTURE AND POLITICAL LIFE IN EARLY MEDIEVAL INDIA

By:

Daud Ali

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0521816270

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9780521816274

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

24 June, 2004

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Indian History & Society 10

Pages:

318

Description:

Daud Ali's book explores courtly culture in classical India.

Synopsis:

Scholars have long studied classical Sanskrit culture in almost total isolation from its courtly context. This book focuses exclusively on the royal court as a social and cultural institution. Using both literary and inscriptional sources, it begins with the rise and spread of royal households and political hierarchies from the Gupta period (c.350-750), and traces the emergence of a coherent courtly worldview which would remain stable for almost a millennium to 1200. Later chapters examine key features of courtly life such as: manners, ethics, concepts of personal beauty, and theories of disposition. The book ends with a sustained examination of the theory and practice of erotic love in the context of the wider social dynamics and anxieties which faced the people of the court.

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20 b/w illus. 1 table

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Cambridge University Press

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