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Grounding texts and theories of societal change

Jason Hawkes
Riza Abbas
  • Fonction : Auteur
Jaseera C.M.
  • Fonction : Auteur
Coline Lefrancq
Sitaram Toraskar
  • Fonction : Auteur

Résumé

During the mid-first millennium AD, new kingdoms and states emerged across South Asia. At this time, land grants made to Hindu temples are thought to have led to wide-ranging societal transformations. To date, however, neither the land-grant charters nor the changes they are said to have driven have been studied archaeologically. Here, the authors present the results of the first archaeological investigation of the charters and their landscape context. Bringing together the textual record with a survey of 268 religious and residential sites, the results establish historical baselines against which the longue durée developments of South Asian social, political and economic formation can be profitably re-posed.

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hal-03941757 , version 1 (16-01-2023)

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Jason Hawkes, Riza Abbas, Anne Casile, Jaseera C.M., Coline Lefrancq, et al.. Grounding texts and theories of societal change. Antiquity, 2022, 96 (387), pp.611-627. ⟨10.15184/aqy.2022.28⟩. ⟨hal-03941757⟩
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