Article: Kingship and Authority in South Asia. (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)

Kingship and Authority in South Asia. Edited by J. F. RICHARDS. Delhi: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1998. Pp. 7 + 375. $35 (cloth).

This volume reprints the proceedings of two conferences on "kingship and authority in South Asia," the first held in Madison in June 1974, the second at Leiden in July 1976. The proceedings were first published, from a typescript copy, by the Department of South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin (1978, rpt. 1981).

The editor's introduction is followed by nine contributions, by J. C. Heesterman (the "conundrum" of kingship and the brahman-king dyarchy in classical Sanskrit texts), Ronald Inden (the cyclic alternation ...

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