Land and Society in Medieval South India: Perspectives on Socio-economic and Cultural Traditions

The present edited volume 'Land and Society in Medieval South India' consists of seventeen research papers, afford a welcome enlargement of the scope of the social, economic and cultural discourse, which dealt with the some of the facets such as geo-political settings, Nayakas of Srikakulam-Vishakhapatnam regions, 'Colonial diarchy' in the Pudukkottai princely state, Tamil-Tulu linkages, agrarian patterns and practices of early and medieval south India, water resource management systems, the medieval Tamil society and class transformation, the ritual functionaries of the Hindu temples, hero stone traditions of medieval Karnataka, Bhakti movement, Buddhist monastic orders, the rock-cut architecture of the Pallavas and other aspects of early and early medieval South India. The strength of this edited volume spotlight the wide range of aspects on the subject as well as projections of the learned scholars on the theme of this book. It is hoped that the readers would be immensely benefitted from the learned exposition of the social, economic, and cultural milieu of the early and medieval south Indian history.