ANTH 28700 /48300 - The State in India

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University of Chicago

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Ideas about South Asian states have often helped shape scholarly and popular understandings about the origins, roles, and forms of state power more generally. Indian states have played a role in discussions as diverse as those about "primary state origins" to notions such as "oriental despotism," "the segmentary state," "feudalism," and "patrimonial states," among others. We examine some of these concepts in the context of a nonsystematic survey of precolonial South Asia, looking at the degree to which classic and contemporary views of state origins, operation, and definition help us to understand actual historical and archaeological inf ormation. K. Morrison. Not of f ered 2009-10; will be o f fered

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3.00

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Lecture

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WWW.UCHICAGO.EDU

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(773) 702-1234

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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Quarter

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