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Tidal waves of India history--between the empires and beyond / Harry Falk -- Autonomous spaces and the authority of the state: the contradiction and its resolution in theory and practice / Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya -- The Vana and the Ksetra: the tribal background of some famous cults / Günther-Dietz Sontheimer -- The state, violence and resistance / Upinder Singh -- Structure of the chiefdom in peninsular India / Rajan Gurukkal -- Trade and the making of state society in early India (c.600-1300 CE) / Ranabir Chakravarti -- State formation and the frontiers: autochthonous communities, ritual practices and the Brahmanical order in early India / Bhairabi Prasad Sahu -- Little kingdoms / Georg Berkemer -- A theatre of broken dreams 2.0: Vidisha during the days of Gupta hegemony / Hans Bakker -- State, patronage and religion in the early Valkha state (c. 4th to 5th centuries CE) / Suchandra Ghosh -- Violence, courtly manners and lineage formation in early medieval India / Daud Ali -- State formation under the Western Gangas in Karnataka (4th to 10th centuries CE) / Yogender Dayma -- State formation and polity of Brahmapura-Kārttikeyapura in central Himalayas (c. 5th-10th centuries CE) / Dev Kumar Jhanjh -- State and its fortunes: the cola experience, South India / Kesavan Veluthat -- Imperial rulers and regional elites in early medieval central India (8th to 13th centuries CE) / Annette Schmiedchen -- Revisiting the Chola State / Y. Subbarayalu -- Imperial architecture and the ideology of kingship in Odisha: Tanjavur's Brihadisvara Temple as the model for Odisha's monumental temples? / Hermann Kulke -- The mouse in the ancestry / Romila Thapar -- Building a past: creation and re-creation of a royal Sanskrit genealogy in medieval Rajasthan / Ulrike Teuscher -- Kosalananda Kavyam and the making of a Rajput Dynasty: a study on the Chauhans of Western Orissa / Shishir K. Panda -- Sultan among Hindu kings: dress titles and the Islamicization of Hindu culture at Vijayanagara / P. Wagoner -- Preparing for the Mughal State: a view from the textual worlds of the fifteenth century / Pankaj Jha -- Durga and
