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Description edit
The neglected study of pre-colonial India is now currently undergoing a revival. Daud Ali views courtly life, through the prism of the famous Kama Sutra, in exploring the culture and polity of medieval India. Ali's analysis is meaningful to literary, religious, historical and cultural studies.
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Characters/People edit
- Gupta: Add a description of this character.
- Sheldon Pollock
- Robert Goodwin
- Harsa
- Kautilya
- Kamandaki
- Bana
- Udayana
- Playworld
- Coomaraswamy
- R. S. Sharma
- Blackwell
- Damanaka
- D. C. Sircar
- Vatsyayana
- Raghu
- Padmavati
- Norbert Elias
- B. D. Chattopadhyaya
- Sarasvati
- Prabhakaravardhana
- Vasavadatta
- Manasollasa
- Mayamata
- Pingalaka
- Rajyavardhana
- Malavika
- Michel Foucault
- Sukandsa
- Nala
Setting & Locations edit
- Ancient India
- Delhi
- Vatsydyana
- Allahabad
- Arthaidstra
- Kamasfitra
- Europe
- New York
- Hc
- Kalidasa
- Kadamba
- Gurjara
- London
- Kanauj
- Aulikara
- Harsha
- Calukya
- Saka
- Early Medieval India
- Sigiriya
- Arthaiastra
- South Asia
- Berkeley
- Paficatantra
- Malwa
- Orissa
- Sinhala
- Kamasatra
- Maitraka
- Arthaiiistra
- Kamandald
- Magadha
- Vakataka
- Gujarat
- Early India
- Maukhari
- Agrawala
- Kaliclasa
- Uccakalpa
- Indian Epigraphy
- Candrapicla
- Varanasi
- Satavahana
First Sentence edit
The practices which form the subject of this book may be conceived of as a loosely connected web of bodily gestures, inner dispositions, and ethical preoccupations which developed at royal courts throughout the subcontinent gradually and unevenly from early historic times.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society. (publisher series)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 954.021
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