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ISBN 1. Andhra Pradesh India -History. A55 T35 '. My interest in medieval Andhra was first stimulated by V. Narayana Rao, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and led to a doctoral dissertation on the topic of religious gifts in Kakatiya Andhra, much of which is incorporated in chapter 3 of this work.
A Fulbright-Hays doctoral dissertation grant funded the initial period of research in India. I am grateful to Sri Venkateswara University in Tirupati for providing an institutional affiliation, and to the directors and staff of the Chief Epigraphist's Office at Mysore and the Andhra Pradesh Department of Archaeology and Museums in Hyderabad for allowing access to many unpublished inscriptions.
I especially wish to thank Prof. Ramachandra Palegadu book pdf free download of Sri Venkateswara University for the many painstaking hours he spent reading through Telugu inscriptions with me.
Portions of it are reprinted here with permission of the Association for Asian Studies. I subsequently began to examine aspects of Kakatiya Andhra beyond religious patronage, palegadu book pdf free download, resulting in chapters 2 and 4 of this work.
I thank Sage Publication India Pvt. I am also indebted to Prof. Noboru Karashima, formerly of the University of Tokyo, for including me in a team project on Vijayanagara inscriptions that was funded by the Mitsubishi Foundation. While working on his project, palegadu book pdf free download, I was able to return to India in and examine many of the inscriptions utilized in chapters 1 and 5.
Additional materials analyzed in chapter 5 were collected in at the India Office Library with the partial assistance of a Bernadette E. I am especially grateful to the National Endowment for the Humanities for awarding me a fellowship inwhich led to the inception of this work in its present form. Many other colleagues have assisted me over the years and it gives me great pleasure to thank some of them individually.
Richards, George Spencer, and Phillip Wagoner. I have also much appreciated the support extended by Susan M. My greatest thanks go to my palegadu book pdf free download, Eric Schenk, whose love and encouragement helped sustain me during the seemingly interminable gestation of this book, palegadu book pdf free download.
Without Eric's nurturing, in addition to my labor, it might never have seen the light of day. While technical terms discussed in the text are transliterated with diacritical marks and always italicized, the names of places and people are given in standardized or simplified forms. Hence the common, Anglicized, spellings of place-names— Srisailam, Cuddapah, Visakhapatnam, and the like—are used throughout. Personal names, as well as some proper nouns, are transliterated in a simplified version that does palegadu book pdf free download differentiate vowel length or consonant class such as retroflex or dental and according to which the vowel r is represented by ri, c by ch, and both 3 and s by sh.
When words appear in italics, a more scholarly system of transliteration is employed with full use of diacritical marks. I therefore indicate long e and o vowels, not only in Telugu but even in Sanskrit words although they are always long in the latter.
Instead of using m to indicate the Telugu sunna symbol, a circle that stands for all nasal sounds, I employ the appropriate nasal sign from Sanskrit orthography in order to better represent the actual pronunciation. Some readers may be unfamiliar with the transliterated form r, used for a letter in medieval Telugu script that is now obsolete and replaced by the standard r. I also adopt the equal sign between compounded words in Sanskrit phrases to indicate that the following vowel has been subjected to euphonic change under the grammatical rule of sandhi.
Nouns are generally cited in their root forms, without inflection—for example, ndyaka rather than the Telugu masculine singular form ndyudu or masculine plural ndyakulu. In the case of Telugu words of neuter gender, however, I generally append the medieval mu ending, as with nayankaramu; in modern Telugu, the final u of neuter words is usually dropped. All translations from Sanskrit and Telugu are my own, unless otherwise indicated. Government Museum No. It is certain that the few features of which we have any description from the Greeks, bear no inaccurate resemblance to those which are found to distinguish this people at palegadu book pdf free download present day.
From this resemblance, from palegadu book pdf free download state of improvement in which the Indians remain, and from the stationary condition in which their institutions first, and then their manners and character, have a tendency to fix them, it is no palegadu book pdf free download supposition, palegadu book pdf free download, that they have presented a very uniform appearance during the long interval from the visit of the Greeks to that of the English.
Their annals, however, from that era till the period of the Mahomedan conquests, are a blank. According to Mill, India was "exactly the same" when Europeans began to arrive in the sixteenth century as it had been at the time of an earlier European intrusion, that of Alexander the Great, in the fourth century B. Nothing of consequence had occurred during the two millennia that had elapsed because India was "stationary.
Despite the inherent absurdity of such a proposition and despite the concerted attack on Orientalism waged over the last two decades, the assertion that India was largely unchanging has not vanished from the secondary literature, palegadu book pdf free download. An alternate I 2 PrccoJonia! India in Practice interpretation first emerged in the late eighteenth century which stressed the greatness of India in ancient times, as a major world power.
This was the age of India's great empires under the dynasties of the Mauryas and Guptas, comparable both in time and in scope to classical antiquity in the Greco-Roman world. But the glories of ancient India could not be sustained, and, similar to events in the West, the Indian Middle Ages declined for a thousand years or more from the previously high civilizational standard. The indigenous belief that society had gradually deteriorated as the cycle of four ages yuga progressed contributed to the colonial perception that India had reached its apex long ago Rocher ; Trautmann The notion of a medieval decline was incorporated into Vincent Smith's Early History of India, which superseded Mill's text in the early twentieth century, and it prevails even today among proponents of the Indian feudalism school, a branch of Marxist historiography.
From its initial depiction as a stagnant era in the unchanging India of James Mill and Karl Marx, medieval India became a dark age, a period when things actively regressed, in the subsequent model of a degenerate India.
The exact periodization varied since the decline commenced in palegadu book pdf free download seventh or eighth centuries according to some interpretations, or with the establishment of Muslim rule in North India from onward according to others.
But the same symptoms of decay were widely cited: artistic standards declined as classical forms were overelaborated in a mindless replication, religious beliefs were corrupted by the accretion of folk superstitions, society was increasingly choked by the weight of a rigid caste hierarchy, and political instability resulted from the increasing fragmentation of kingdoms.
Wildly differing reasons were advanced for this sorry state of affairs, ranging from the deleterious impact of Muslim rule to the stultifying effects of Oriental despotism and the Asiatic mode of production. A favorite culprit has been the caste system, regarded as a cancerous growth that undermined all attempts at political unity and thus led to the engulfing of the state by society.
Medieval India is now being rehabilitated, historiographically speaking, and one of my primary aims is to contribute to this ongoing process. Far from constituting a moribund or regressive phase, the medieval era in my opinion was a period of progressive change, palegadu book pdf free download, characterized by the extension of agrarian settlement, a rise in the number of religious institutions, an expansion of commercial activity, and an evolution of political systems and networks.
As the agrarian frontier advanced farther and farther, it was accompanied by a culture that valued the making and recording of religious gifts.
Although this process occurred throughout the subcontinent, simultaneously but at differing tempos, a multitude of permutations occurred on the main theme. The particulars of religious belief and practice varied from place to place, as did the specific configurations of the human communities who participated together in religious worship, as well as in the larger social, economic, and political spheres that intersected at the shrine or temple.
Out of these many variables emerged the distinctive regional societies that comprise India today and it is the medieval history of one of them, Andhra Pradesh, that constitutes the A History in Transition 3 subject of this book.
As we increasingly recognize the nature and extent of the transformations that characterized the medieval past, our evaluation of the period has correspondingly altered—it is in this sense that we can speak of the history of medieval India as both a history in transition and a history of transition. Some of the impetus for a reappraisal palegadu book pdf free download medieval India arises from recent revisionist research on the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the time span when British rule was first extended over parts of India.
A number of scholars now argue that the "traditional" India recorded by later colonial observers represented palegadu book pdf free download the early colonial era nor its precolonial predecessor. This "traditional" India was allegedly an atomized civilization composed of self-sufficient villages, upon whom the ephemeral state systems of the subcontinent had little impact.
Religion and kinship, rather than economics or politics, were the dominant principles ordering society and so the parameters of existence for the masses was dictated by the inflexible hereditary caste structure headed by brahman religious specialists. But the British commentators who identified these features of "traditional" India failed to realize how much change had already been palegadu book pdf free download by colonial rule, according to the revisionist view.
Indeed, much of what was described as "traditional" was a product of the colonial palegadu book pdf free download. Revisionist scholars believe the indigenous social system was depoliticized in the early colonial period through elimination of the pivotal role of the king. British intervention, by removing the king from his focal position at the center of society, truncated the top levels of what had been an extensive redistributive system integrating the various sectors and thereby forcibly separated the hitherto joint economic, political, and social hierarchies.
In the economic sphere, British rule thus resulted in the emergence of the self-sufficient village. Similarly, in the newly autonomous social sphere, the dislocations caused by colonialism led to the replacement of the king by brahmans as the arbiters of social order. If these assertions are correct, it follows that our conceptions of "traditional" India apply primarily to nineteenth-century India, a society transformed by colonial rule, and not to earlier periods of Indian history.
Our enhanced understanding of India's importance within the larger Indian Ocean trade networks modifies traditional thinking about both the activities of Indian mercantile communities and the volume of domestic trade. Studies have shown palegadu book pdf free download precolonial Indian merchants acted in an entrepreneurial manner in supplying commodities for export to distant domestic markets as well as international ones.
In doing so, they stimulated the production of commercial goods and the expansion of overland and coastal trade routes that linked many portions of the subcontinent. These commercial networks existed even before the Europeans came to the Indian Ocean aroundextending both westward to the Middle East and eastward to Southeast Asia.
The implications of such findings are obvious—medieval India can no longer be regarded as a world of isolated villages struggling on a subsistence economy. Palegadu book pdf free download in Practice and politics while it simultaneously enlarges the scope of our historiographic gaze by shining light on the activities of peasants and merchants along with those of the more visible priests and kings.?
Whether we are speaking of research on early colonial India, palegadu book pdf free download, early modern India, or medieval South India, therefore, we find an emerging consensus that previous conceptualizations of precolonial or "traditional" Indian society and history are seriously flawed.
This work seeks to add momentum to the current historiographic shift that is recasting the medieval past more and more in a dynamic and progressive form. In the process, palegadu book pdf free download will fill in some of the blank spaces in the historiography of non-Muslim India, which James Mill believed had produced no historical records.
Regions and Regionalism in Medieval India My reconstruction of the medieval past limits itself to the region of Andhra, palegadu book pdf free download, one of the least studied parts of the subcontinent.
Yet today Andhra Palegadu book pdf free download is the largest state in South India, with more thanpalegadu book pdf free download, square miles in land and a population of more than 66 million in map 1. In European terms, it is roughly comparable to Italy in both size and extent of population. The broadest sweep of time surveyed in this book, the centuries from tocorresponds to the era during which the geographic contours of the modern linguistic region were established.
Several chapters focus more narrowly on the years between andthe period when much of modern Andhra Pradesh was politically unified for the first time under the rule of an indigenous dynasty, the Kakatiyas. For centuries afterward, the Kakatiyas figured prominently in conceptions of the regional community they had helped create by consolidating the dry upland territories of Andhra with the older coastal zone of settlement.
Although a geographic focus on one region consigns developments occurring across a larger arena to the periphery of our historiographic gaze, there are good reasons for choosing a regional point of view. Regions did not exist in airtight compartments, of course, and the circulation of goods, people, and ideas throughout the subcontinent and beyond was an important source of medieval India's dynamism.
In fact, the balance of power among the various kingdoms of early medieval India was significantly affected by shifts in the geographic foci of Indian Ocean trade networks, as Andre Wink has demonstrated But the growth of regional societies, as the most outstanding feature of the medieval period as a whole, demands our attention.
Between andthere was a vast expansion in the territorial spread of "historic" society in India, the civilization that left behind monumental buildings and written documents. This civilization simultaneously took on more differentiated forms, as local elites appropriated features of pan-Indie culture in varying ways and local societies coalesced in diverse configurations.
The internal dynamics thus differed from place to place, even if propelled by the same underlying A History in Transition 5 Map 1. Location of Andhra Pradesh forces of agrarian expansion and demographic increase. Anything larger than a regional perspective would obscure the critical variables leading to the emergence of distinctive local societies, while anything less would fail to account for the regionally differentiated India of today. In the past decade, scholars of contemporary India have increasingly come to regard regional patterns of cultural practice as the significant units of study e.
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