Political Violence in Ancient India

Cover 
 Contents
 List of Tables
 List of Figures
 Introduction
 SECTION I Religion and Region
 1 Sanchi: The History of the Patronage of an Ancient Buddhist Establishment
 2 Nagarjunakonda: Buddhism in the 'City of Victory'
 3 Cults and Shrines in Early Historical Mathura (c. 200 BC-AD 200)
 4 Early Medieval Orissa: The Data and the Debate
 SECTION II Archaeologists and the Modern Histories of Ancient Sites
 5 Archaeologists and Architectural Scholars in 19th Century India
 6 Amaravati: The Dismembering ofthe Mahācaitya (1797-1886). 7 Buddhism, Archaeology, and the Nation: Nagarjunakonda (1926-2006)8 Exile and Return: The Reinvention of Buddhism and Buddhist Sites in Modern India
 SECTION III The Intersectionof Political Ideas and Practice
 9 Governing the State and the Self: Political Philosophy and Practice in the Edicts of Aśoka
 10 Politics, Violence, and War in Kāmandaka's Nītisāra
 11 The Power of a Poet: Kingship, Empire, and War in Kālidāsa's Raghuvaṁ śa
 SECTION IV Looking beyond India to Asia 
 12 Gifts from Other Lands: Southeast Asian Religious Endowments in India. 13 Politics, Piety, and Patronage: The Burmese Engagement with BodhgayāAbout the Author
 Index.