A history of Ancient and Early Medieval India: Upinder Singh
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List of Newly Added sections/tables
• Introduction
o South-Asian Landscape (5)
o Mighty Brahmaputra (7)
• Chapter 1: Understanding Sources
o Chronology of Ramayana – Removed
o Letters from Alexander Cunningham to JDM Begler (42)
o HD Sankalia: Born for Archaeology (43)
o Visual Sources (section) (66)
• Chapter 2: Hunter-Gatherers of the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic
o Attirampakkam (89)
o Prehistoric hunter-gatherers in the Sri Lankan rain forests (105)
• Chapter 3: The Transition to Food Production
o Plant and animal remains from neolithic Lahuradeva (132)
• Chapter 4: The Harappan Civilization, c 2600-1900 BCE
o Diffusionist Theories – Removed
o The Rhinoceros and the Harappans (184)
o Man, god, or goddess? (201)
o What exactly did the Harappans eat? (205)
• Chapter 5: Cultural Transition: Images from Texts and Archaeology, c. 2000 – 600 BCE
o The invention of War Elephants (235)
o Science and mathematics in Vedic texts (new section) (247)
o The Sanauli cemetery (updated) (251)
o Early agriculture in Nagaland (264)
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o Sanganakallu (278)
o Megaliths in the North-east (new section) (285)
o Living megalithism, landscapes, and memory (286)
o From the neolithic to the iron age at Kadebakale (296)
• Chapter 6: Cities, Kings and Renunciants: North India c. 600-200 BCE
o The state and violence (311)
o The Forest Tribes (new section) (319)
o Chronology of Magadhan dynasties (removed)
o Profile of Atranjikhera (removed)
o Emergence of City (removed)
o Perception of Forest (removed)
o Site catchment analysis of Semthan (329)
o Sri Lanka and South India (new section) (337)
• Chapter 7: Power and Piety: The Marya Empire, c 324-187 BCE
o Statistical analysis of Arthashastra (removed)
o The message in the landscape (388)
o Some aspects of rural and urban life (removed)
o Kautilya’s timetable for the king (removed)
o Mauryan state and forest people (removed)
• Chapter 8: Interaction and Innovation, c 200 BCE-300 CE
o The Kautilyan state (428)
o The Natyashastra (moved here from the original place in chapter 9) (429)
o The Gatha-Sattasai (430)
o Ai-Khanoum: A Hellenistic city in Afghanistan (436)
o The Mahameghavahans in Eastern India (new section) (446)
o Epigraphic dialogue in the Hathigumpha inscription (447)
o Tamil-Brahmi Inscription (454)
o Sri Lanka (new section) (456)
o Finding children in the archaeological record (463)
o Dramatic discoveries in Hoq cave, Socotra (488)
o A Greek play set on the Malabar coast (490)
o Pattanam: An Ancient Muziris? (492)
o The Royal Drum (name change from Heroic Death) (502)
o Buddhism in Sri Lanka (new section) (522)
o Modern histories of ancient Buddhist relics (529)
o Stupas of South India and Sri Lanka (old section name: Stupas of Andhra Pradesh)
(534)
o Satavahana Kings in Kanaganahalli Sculptures (537)
o The Archaeology of Forests (old name: Pious Donations of Bandhogarh) (558)
• Chapter 9: Aesthetics and Empire, c. 300-600 CE
o Faxian’s Fuguo ji (updated) (566)
o Mansar (577)
o The Varaha Relief at Udayagiri (581)
o Sanskrit inscriptions at Vo-canh and Kutei (600)
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o Ganika and Kulastri (removed)
o The Sigiriya paintings and the poems on the Mirror Wall (630)
o Vakataka Sculptures (634)
o Teaching politics through animal stories (639)
o The Bower Manuscript (645) (separate box)
• Chapter 10: Emerging Regional Configurations, c 600-1200 CE
o Kshemendra’s satire (653)
o Kamban’s Iramavataram (655)
o Rudrammadevi, the female king (removed)
o Betel-bag bearers in royal court (moved here and renamed) (663)
o The Chola expedition against Srivijaya (667)
o Gifts by south-east Asian rulers at Nalanda, Nagapattinam and Bodh Gaya (715)
o Ratnagiri (720)
o The Buddhist heritage of the Maldives (724)
o Ritual death in the Jaina tradition (727)
o Jainism in the religious landscape of Mathura (728)
o The hagiographies of Shankara (730)
o Inter-religious dynamics (new section) (744)
o Islam and Muslim communities (new section) (747)
o The sacred geography of Jageshwar (752)
o Playful ambiguity andpolitical authority in the Mamallapuram relief (764)
o Early mosques in the subcontinent (new section) (774)
o Mosques in Sindh and the Swat valley (774)
Footnotes:
• Note 1: There are many more changes in the text of various sections and those are not
covered here.
• Note 2: In both editions (2008 and 2024), some boxes are not mentioned in the Table of
Contents, but they are present inside the book. Such boxes are not covered in this list.
• Note 3: In some cases, the text in the earlier boxes is shifted to the normal text in the new
editions.
• Note 4: The same old boxes in some cases have additional or updated content. Those
changes are also not counted in this list.
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