THE MAKING OF EARLY MEDIEVAL INDIA, 2/e

B.D. Chattopadhyayas exploration of the processes and nature of change in Indian society between the seventh and the thirteenth centuries, marks a radical departure from the existing historiography of the period. Providing an alternative perspective on these six hundred years, he demonstrates change as a process of progressive transformation, and not—as in the mainstream vision of the period—by the breakdown of an earlier social order. The introduction to this second edition provides an overview of the various contemporary debates and theories surrounding ancient and early medieval India. This Oxford India Perennials edition is testimony to the books status as a landmark publication, which re-interpreted early medieval India, since its first publication in 1994.