The state in India
Subtitle: past and present
By: edited by Masaaki Kimura and Akio Tanabe.
Contributors: Kimura, Masaaki.; Tanabe,  Akio, 1964-; International Workshop on 'The State in India: past and present' (1999 Dec. 2-5 : Kyoto, Japan)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Delhi; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: India -- Politics and government -- 1977-  -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Covers the period prior to 997 A.D. to 20th century; transcript of papers presented at an international workshop held in Kyoto from 2 to 5 December 1999.
Notes: "This book is a product of an international workshop on 'The State in India: past and present' held in Kyoto from 2 to 5 December 1999."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Section 1. Formation and concept of the state. State and kingship in the period of the Sixteen Mahājanapadas in Ancient North India / Genơichi Yamazaki ; The integrative model of the state formation in early medieval India : some historiographic remarks / Hermann Kulke ; The social background of state formation in India / Masaaki Kimura; title: Section 2. Forms and process of the state. Doṣa (sin)-prāyaścitta (penance) : the predominating ideology in the medieval Deccan / Hiroyuki Kotani ; The coin of the realm : (un)making polities in late pre-colonial South-Asia / Sanjay Subrahmanyam ; The mirasi system as social grammar : state, local society, and raiyat in eighteenth-nineteenth century South India / Tsukasa Mizushima ; Early modernity and colonial transformation : rethinking the role of the king in eighteenth and nineteenth century Orissa, India / Akio Tanabe ; The ethnographic state / Nicholas B. Dirks; title: Section 3. Ideas and problematics of the state. The secularity of the state / Peter van der Veer ; Hindu priests under secular government : a case study of the Nataraja Temple at Chidambaram, South India / Masakazu Tanaka ; Democratic culture and images of the state : India's unending ambivalence / Ashis Nandy ; The Indian state in the evolving international order / Matin Zuberi.