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  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF HINDU TEMPLES
    HIMANSHU PRABHA RAY
    This handbook is a comprehensive study of the archaeology, social history and the cultural landscape of the Hindu temple. Perhaps the most recognizable of the material forms of Hinduism, temples are lived, dynamic spaces. They are significant sites for the creation of cultural heritage, both in the past and in the present. Drawing on historiographical surveys and in-depth case ...

    $1,180.00

  • THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE TRADITIONS OF THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLD
    HIMANSHU PRABHA RAY
    This book examines knowledge traditions that held together the fluid and overlapping maritime worlds of the Indian Ocean in the premodern period, as evident in the material and archaeological record. It breaks new ground by shifting the focus from studying cross-pollination of ideas from textual sources to identifying this exchange of ideas in archaeological and historical docu...

    $1,179.00

  • POWER, PRESENCE AND SPACE
    HIMANSHU PRABHA RAY / JENSUWE HARTMANN / HENRY ALBERY
    Patterns of ritual power, presence, and space are fundamentally connected to, and mirror, the societal and political power structures in which they are enacted. This book explores these connections in South Asia from the early Common Era until the present day. The essays in the volume examine a wide range of themes, including a genealogy of ideas concerning Vedic rituals in Eur...

    $1,260.00

  • COASTAL SHRINES AND TRANSNATIONAL MARITIME NETWORKS ACROSS INDIA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
    HIMANSHU PRABHA RAY
    This book breaks new ground by examining trans-oceanic connectivity through the perspective of coastal shrines and maritime cultural landscapes across the Bay of Bengal and the South China Sea. It covers a period of expanding networks and cross-cultural encounters from the 3rd century BCE to the 13th century CE. The book examines the distinctiveness of these shrines, and highli...

    $1,200.00

  • ARCHAEOLOGY AND BUDDHISM IN SOUTH ASIA
    HIMANSHU PRABHA RAY
    This book traces the archaeological trajectory of the expansion of Buddhism and its regional variations in South Asia. Focusing on the multireligious context of the subcontinent in the first millennium BCE, the volume breaks from conventional studies that pose Buddhism as a counter to the Vedic tradition to understanding the religion more integrally in terms of dhamma (teaching...

    $1,160.00

  • INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY AFTER INDEPENDENCE
    HIMANSHU PRABHA RAY / AJAY YADAV
    The book presents the challenges faced by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in the first two and a half decades after Indian independence. It looks at the shifts in Government policies, how ASI found its feet in a global environment, and the new realities of economic development such as big dam constructions that invariably resulted in the submergence of archaeological s...

    $1,140.00