Böcker av Bhairabi Prasad Sahu

This book looks at the ways in which archaeological methods have been used in debates concerning the early medieval and medieval periods in South Asia.

This handbook presents a multilayered and multidimensional history of state formation in premodern India. It explores dense and rich local and subregional historiography from the mid-first millennium BC to the eighteenth century in South Asia.

This volume, focused on Odisha, situates the region in the wider context of its trans-regional background for as the archaeological and epigraphic evidence available shows that it was an integral part of a wider zone from the early historical period. Juxtaposing the patterns obtaining in the region with developments in other parts of the subcontinent, The Making of Regions in Indian History: Society, State and Identity in Premodern Odisha delineates the cultural transactions within and beyond that went into the making of Odisha.