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Article: Kingship and Authority in South Asia.(Review)
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- June 22, 2000
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Kingship and Authority in South Asia. Edited by J. F. Richards. (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. iv, 375. $35.00.)
Ideologies about legitimate authority in India have long proven the fruitful object of thoughtful analysis. Over the centuries, a variety of Hindu, Jain, and Muslim commentators composed prescriptive and descriptive texts about kingship. The book of collected papers under review here studies how the "intelligentsia of South Asian societies," from the first to the eighteenth centuries, analyzed the role of the reigning monarch (4). This reprint volume emerged from a two-part symposium (held in 1974 and 1976) and was published earlier ...