State, power and legitimacy : the Gupta kingdom / edited by Kunal Chakrabarti and Kanad Sinha

Includes bibliography and index.

1 Revisiting the Gupta kingdom state, power and legitimacy / Kanad Sinha -- SECTION I : OVERVIEW AND SOURCES : The Gupta kingdom / K. Chakrabarti -- Gupta history and literature : a bibliographic essay / Eleanor Zelliot -- Archaeological remains of the Gupta period / K. N. Dikshit -- The five Damodarpur copper-plate inscriptions of the Gupta period / Raqdhagovinda Basak -- Problem of the identity of king 'Candra' of the Meharauli Prasasti / S. R. Goyal -- Meharauli iron pillar inscription and Candra Gupta II : a reassessment / Kanad Sinha -- The coinage / A. S. Altekar -- SECTION II : ORIGIN OF THE GUPTAS : The origin of the imperial Guptas / Social Milieu of the Guptas / S. R. Goyal -- The Gupta era : a re-assessment / Parmeshwari Lal Gupta -- SECTION III : THE FOUNDATION OF THE EMPIRE : The rise of the Gupta / R. C. Majumdar -- Kaca : a step brother of Samudragupta / Parmeshwari Lal Gupta -- Kaca problem solved / Parmeshwari Lal Gupta -- Identification of the prince and territories mentioned in the Allahabad pillar inscription of Samudragupta / D. R. Bhandarkar -- Allahabad inscription of Samudragupta is not posthumous / B. Chhabra -- Unification of the Ganga valley / S. R. Goyal -- SECTION IV : THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE EMPIRE : Chandra-Gupta II (Vikramaditya) and his predecessor / K. P. Jayaswal -- The tradition of Rama Gupta and the Indian nationalist historians / S. N. Mukherjee -- Chandra-Gupta II Vikramaditya / H. C. Raychaudhuri -- The 'Nava-Ratna' at Vikram's court / D. C. Sircar -- Vikramaditya in Jain tradition / H. D. Velankar -- Kumaragupta I and the South / S. R. Goyal -- Govindagupta / S. V. Sohoni -- The Vekatakas and their place in the history of India / S. K. Aiyangar -- A note on the rule of the Vakatakas / B. N. Mukherjee -- The Vakataka queen Prabhavati Gupta / R. C. Majumdar -- The period of construction : Rudrasena II and Prabhavati Gupta / Hans Bakker -- SECTION V : DECLINE OF THE GUPTA : Skanda Gupta Vikramaditya / H. C. Raychaudhuri -- Budhagupta / S. R. Goyal -- Later Gupta history : inscriptions, coins and historical ideology / Michael Willis -- The disintegration of the empire / R. C. Majumdar -- SECATION VI : THE APPARATUS OF THE EMPIRE : Political theory and administration organisation / U. N. Ghoshal -- Land ownership and k8ing's right to taxes / Dwijendra Narayan Jha -- Assessment of land revenue in Post-Maurya and Gupta times (c.200 BC - AD 600) / Dwijendra Narayan Jha -- Gupta polity : military organisation / V. R. P. Diskshitar -- Indian feudalism : organis and first phase (c. AD 300-750) / R. S. Sharma -- Agrarian structure in central India and Northern deccan (c. AD 300-500) : a study of Vakataka inscriptions / Krishna Mohan Shrimali -- Subordinate rulers under the Gupta monarchs : political integration and state formation in central and eastern India / Ashish Kumar -- The Mandasor inscription of the silk-weavers / A. L. Basham -- SECTION VII : RELIGION AND THE STATE : Religious toleration under the imperial Guptas / R. S. Tripathi -- Royal patronage and religious tolerance : the formative period of Gupta-Vakataka culture / Hans Bakker -- Puranic Vaisnavism and the Guptas : a study of kingship, legitimacy and religion / Kanad Sinha --
The image of the heretic in the Gupta Puranas / Wendy Doniger O'flaherty -- Feudalism and Mahayana Buddhism / A. K. Warder -- SECTION VIII : CULTURE AND THE LEGITIMIZATION OF ROYAL AUTHORITY : The power of a poet : kingship, empire and war in Kalidasa's Raghuvanamsa / Upinder Singh -- Seeing and hearing : representations of kingship in the Abhijnanasakuntalam and the Raghuvamsam of Kalidasa / Kumkum Roy -- History as literature : the plays of Vissakhadatta / Romila Thapar -- Some royal poets of the Vakataka age / V. V. Mirashi -- Historical and po0ltical allegory in Gupta art / Frederick M. Asher