Revisiting a Tenth Century Copper Plate Inscription: A Rastrakuta Record Restruck by the Paramaras
Jhanjh, Dev Kumar (2020) Revisiting a Tenth Century Copper Plate Inscription: A Rastrakuta Record Restruck by the Paramaras. [Publications (Pre-joining)]
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Abstract
The importance of Copper-plate charters, for understanding the history of early-medieval India (c. 600-1300 CE), is undeniable. The absence of any paramount power in this phase, paved the way for the emergence of several regional powers, whose political ambition led them to engage into constant conflicts to prove/claim their supremacy. Prominent among them were the Pälas of eastern India, Pratéhäras of central India, the Räñöraküöas of Deccan and others.1 There is a plethora of documents to understand the power politics of these powers individually, and the contestation that took place among them. This paper seeks to address a kind of power politics between the Räñöraküöas and the Paramäras through the study of a copper-plate charter, which typifies one of these political contestations. The charter is further interesting and important because it is a restruck copper-plate, initially a Räñöraküöa record which the Paramäras attempted to obliterate to engrave their own statement, at a later period.
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| Authors: | Jhanjh, Dev Kumar | ||
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| Subjects: | Social sciences History & geography > History of Asia |
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| Divisions: | Azim Premji University > School of Development | ||
| Full Text Status: | Public | ||
| URI: | http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/5215 | ||
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