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The Emergence of Monarchy in North India, Eighth to Fourth Centuries BC (as Reflected in the Brahmanical Tradition)
  
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The Emergence of Monarchy in North India, Eighth to Fourth Centuries BC (as Reflected in the Brahmanical Tradition) (Hardcover)

by Kumkum Roy (Author)
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This book explores the institutionalization of relationshjips of power in early north India. It does this by an analysis of myths, rituals, and prescriptions embedded in the brahmanical tradition. Dr Roy argues that monarchy acquires centrality in a situation where contending definitions of power coexist. At another level, the author focuses on the broader social context, including the growing emphasis on varna identities, and on a particular pattern of householding typified by the patriarchal qrha. She suggests that the relationship between this context and monarchy waa two way process; while the raja tried to intervene in and control society, more often than not the specific form of such interventions was delimited and constrained by the concerns of dominant social categories. In other words, the emergence of monarchy is viewed not as an imposition from above, but as the result of a complex process of social change.

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