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POWER, PRESENCE AND SPACE
Patterns of ritual power, presence and space are fundamentally connected
to, and mirror, the societal and political power structures in which they are
enacted.
This book explores these connections in South Asia from the early
Common Era until the present day. The chapters in the volume examine a
wide range of themes, including a genealogy of ideas concerning Vedic rituals
in European thought; Buddhist donative rituals of Gandhara and Andhra
Pradesh in the early Common Era; land endowments, festivals and temple
establishments in medieval Tamil Nadu and Karnataka; Mughal court rituals
of the Mughal Empire and contemporary ritual complexes on the Nilgiri
Plateau. This volume argues for the need to redress a historical neglect in
identifying and theorising ritual and religion in material contexts within
archaeology. Further, it challenges existing theoretical and methodological
forms of documentation to propose new ways of understanding rituals in
history.
This volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of South
Asian history, religion, archaeology and historical geography.
Henry Albery
has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Distant Worlds Graduate
School, Münchner Zentrum für Antike Welten, Ludwig-Maximilians-
Universität, Munich, Germany, since 2018, where a year prior he completed
his doctoral thesis in Indologie und Religionswissenschaft. His research
is primarily concerned with a social and political history of Buddhism in
the north and northwesterly regions of South Asia in the early Common
Era, focusing foremost on donative inscriptions in Brāhmī and Kharoṣṭhī
and on Buddhist legal and narrative literature in Chinese, Gāndhārī, Pāli
and Sanskrit. He is also a member of the collaborative project ‘An English
Translation of a Sanskrit Buddhist Yoga Manual’ from Kučā, funded by
The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Grants for Critical Editions and
Scholarly Translations, 2018.
Jens-Uwe Hartmann
is former Professor of Indology at the Ludwig-
Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany. After studying in Munich
and Göttingen, he held the post of Professor of Tibetology at Humboldt
University in Berlin before returning to Munich in 1999. In 2001, he became
a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and a corresponding
member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2007. He has held visiting
appointments at the Collège de France in Paris (2001 and 2004), the Centre
for Advanced Study of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences in Oslo (2001–
2002), the International College for Advanced Buddhist Studies in Tokyo
(2002), the Soka University in Tokyo (2003), the UC Berkeley (2010) and
the University of Stanford (2017).
His research centres on the recovery and reconstruction of Indian
Buddhist literature on the basis of Indic manuscripts as well as translations
into Chinese and Tibetan with a focus on canonical texts and works of
poetry. His various authored and coedited works include an edition of
the Varṇārhavarṇastotra of Mātṛceṭa (1987); a study of the Dīrghāgama of
the Sarvāstivādins (1992); the series Buddhist
Manuscripts, devoted
to the
publication of ancient Indic manuscripts from Afghanistan (2000, 2002,
2006, 2016) and 
From Birch Bark to Digital Data: Recent Advances in
Buddhist Manuscript Research (2014).
Himanshu Prabha Ray
is Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies,
Oxford, UK. She was the first chairperson of the National Monuments
Authority, Ministry of Culture, New Delhi, India, from 2012 to 2015, and
former Professor in the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi, India. Her research interests include maritime
history and archaeology of the Indian Ocean, the history of archaeology
in South and Southeast Asia and the archaeology of religion in Asia. Her
recent books include
Archaeology and Buddhism in South Asia
(2018),
Buddhism and Gandhara: An Archaeology of Museum Collections
(ed.
2018),
The Archaeology of Sacred Spaces: The Temple in Western India,
2nd Century BCE to 8th Century CE
(with Susan Verma Mishra, 2017),
The Return of the Buddha: Ancient Symbols for a New Nation
(2014) and
The Archaeology of Seafaring in Ancient South Asia
(2003).
ARCHAEOLOGY AND RELIGION IN SOUTH ASIA
Series Editor: Himanshu Prabha Ray,
Research Fellow, Oxford
Centre for Hindu Studies; former Chairperson of the National
Monuments Authority, Ministry of Culture, Government of
India and former Professor, Centre for Historical Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Editorial Board: Gavin Flood,
Academic Director,
Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies;
Jessica Frazier,
Academic Administrator, Oxford Centre for Hindu
Studies; Julia Shaw, Institute of Archaeology, University
College, London;
Shailendra Bhandare,
Ashmolean
Museum, Oxford;
Devangana Desai,
Asiatic Society,
Mumbai;
and Vidula Jaiswal,
Jnana Pravaha, Varanasi,
former Professor, Banaras Hindu University
This series, in association with the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, reflects
on the complex relationship between religion and society through new
perspectives and advances in archaeology. It looks at this critical interface to
provide alternative understandings of communities, beliefs, cultural systems,
sacred sites, ritual practices, food habits, dietary modifications, power, and
agents of political legitimisation. The books in the Series underline the
importance of archaeological evidence in the production of knowledge of
the past. They also emphasise that a systematic study of religion requires
engagement with a diverse range of sources such as inscriptions, iconography,
numismatics and architectural remains.
POWER, PRESENCE AND SPACE
South Asian Rituals in Archaeological Context
Edited by Henry Albery, Jens-Uwe Hartmann and
Himanshu Prabha Ray
For a full list of titles in this series, please visit www.routledge.com/Archaeology-
and-Religion-in-South-Asia/book-series/AR

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