‘Autonomous Spaces’ and the Authority of the State: the Contradiction and its Resolution in Theory and Practice in Early India

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Inhalt V
3. Zur Einführung VII
4. Verzeichnis der Tagungsteilnehmer XVIII
5. I. Modelle
6. ‘Autonomous Spaces’ and the Authority of the State: the Contradiction and its Resolution in Theory and Practice in Early India 1
7. Communities, States, and ‘Classical’ India 15
8. II. Konstellationen
9. Early Sanskritization Origins and Development of the Kuru State 27
10. Die Gesetze des buddhistischen Sangha als indisches Rechtssystem 53
11. The Chronicle of a Little Kingdom 65
12. III. Zur Natur der Rechtsquellen
13. Dharmaśāstra, Custom, ‘Real Law’ and ‘Apocryphal’ Smṛtis 97
14. IV. Materialien
15. Staatliche Strukturen im Reich der Maitrakas von Valabhī 111
16. Donations Called Deposits, or, The Malla State and Private Rituals 125
17. The Institution of Slavery in Nepal and its Analysis Based on the Dharmaśāstras 135
18. Six 15th- and 16th-century Deeds from Tirhut Recording the Purchase of Slaves 159
19. V. Interpretationen
20. Women, Law and the State in Classical India 195
21. Die maṇḍala-Theorie im Artha- und Nītiśāstra 211
22. Some Observations on the Political Functions of Copper-Plate Grants in Early Medieval India 237
23. Überlegungen zu atavī und anderen Gruppen der Anārya-Bevölkerung im alten Indien nach Sanskritquellen 245
24. Wortregister 253
25. Sachregister 256
26. Backmatter 258