SAST 163 - Empire in South Asia/Indian Polities

Institution:

University of Pennsylvania

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Description:

Staff. A survey of the theories and realities of polities in South Asia, , from the first emergence of states, via the empires of Asoka and of dynastiessuch as the Guptas, up to the late medieval kingdoms of both North and South India. Inscriptional records will be read and juxtaposed with the prescriptionsof texts such as the famously Machiavellian Arthasastra, and we will also consider the mechanics of taxation, the maintenance of armies, and the realities of armed conflict in pre-modern South Asia.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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