From Obscurity to Light: Women in Early Medieval Orissa (Seventh to Twelfth Centuries AD)

Author:

Devika Rangachari

Publisher:

MANOHAR PUBLISHERS AND DISTRIBUTORS

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Publisher

MANOHAR PUBLISHERS AND DISTRIBUTORS

Publication Year 2020
ISBN-13

9788194352167

ISBN-10 9788194352167
Binding

Hardcover

Edition FIRST
Number of Pages 272 Pages
Language (English)
Dimensions (Cms) 22x14.5x1.5
Weight (grms) 486

This book attempts to reintegrate women into the socio-political milieu of early medieval Orissa. Its sources are inscriptions, mostly Sanskrit, that date from the seventh century ad to the end of the reign of the Imperial Ganga ruler, Anantavarman Codagangadeva (AD 1078-1147). The evi­dence indicates that royal and non-royal women had varying but undeniably important roles to play in the socio-political fabric of this prominent regional entity. The Bhauma-Kara dynasty (c. mid-eighth/ninth-late tenth century) that witnessed the rule of six women, four of them in succession, is a case in point. In addition, the palpable presence of several other royal and non-royal women is consistently documented in the epigraphic record. This is an aspect that has received very little attention in secondary works, thereby rendering this study a pioneering one.


The work follows on from Rangachari’s earlier Invisible Women, Visible Histories: Gender, Polity and Society in North India (7th to 12th Century AD), which had focused on important gendered aspects of early medieval north India through an analysis of literary and epigraphic sources of Kashmir, Kanauj, Bengal and Bihar. The invisibilization of women, whereby their presence is routinely ignored or trivialized, was, similarly, its underlying essence.

Devika Rangachari

Devika Rangachari is an independent historian whose doctoral research was published under the title Invisible Women, Visible Histories: Gender, Society and Polity in North India (2009). She has been the recipient of several prestigious academic fellowships and is, additionally, an award-winning writer of gender-based historical fiction.
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