A New Copper Plate Inscription of Gopala II

Furui, Ryosuke

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“…The genealogy of mahāsainyapati Kokkāka in the Mohipur grant of Gopāla II first mentions his family as a sāmanta family (vaṃśa) which was a carrier of the burden of the kingdom of the Samataṭa kings. 20 It had served the kings of Samataṭa at least from the generation of the great grandfather of Kokkāka, for Cāmuṇḍadatta, his grandfather, is said to have been born in this family. 21 In view of the chronology of the kings of Samataṭa, their overlord might have been either the Khaḍgas or the Devas, who flourished from the second half of the seventh to the end of the eighth century.…”

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“…55 In the latter, Kokkāka petitioned Gopāla II to give village Kaṅkāvāsaka to the vihāra constructed by him in the same village. 56 The construction of vihāras in each locality points to its control by these subordinate rulers and their resources accruing from it, which enabled such an enterprise. The establishment of religious institutions with personal connection and the donation of villages to them may have contributed to the extension of local influence of the subordinate rulers.…”

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Subordinate rulers under the P–alas: Their diverse origins and shifting power relation with the king

Furui

2017

The Indian Economic & Social History Review

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The political formation in early medieval North India was characterised by subordinate rulers who were indispensable components of a monarchical state of the period. Their agency and power relations with the kingship had critical bearings on the early medieval history of Bengal under the Pālas. The epigraphical sources and the Rāmacarita of Sandhyākaranandin show diverse origins of the subordinate rulers, who got the position through their association with the Pāla kings. The royal grants issued on their application show their attempts to enhance their local control and position by negotiation with the king. The Pāla kings got the upper hand in this negotiation by countering the attempts of subordinate rulers and strengthening the local control through new measures. Their success however brought out a conjuncture at which social contradictions and tensions exploded as the Kaivarta rebellion, which resulted in their heavy dependence on subordinate rulers.

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Subordinate rulers under the P–alas: Their diverse origins and shifting power relation with the king

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2017

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Monastic ‘Governmentality’: Revisiting ‘Community’ and ‘Communalism’ in South Asia

Chatterjee

2015

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This essay extends and revises the Foucauldian concept of 'governmentality' in order to root theories about the 'political community' in the historical evidence available from the Indian subcontinent. It uses this revised understanding as a frame for rethinking issues of violence between identical communities relevant to understanding the violence of 1947-1971. Such violence, the essay argues, was not tied to the inherent nature of any one community. Nor was it related in any direct way to violence of the 17th and 18th century. Instead, it suggests that historians need to reconceive the distinct strands that made up a political community in terms of lay and monastic households and investigate the shifting relationships between these strands in order to understand the moment at which both diplomacy and sociality failed.

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Ādivāsīs, tribes and other neologisms for erasing precolonial pasts: An example from Northeast India

Chatterjee

2016

The Indian Economic & Social History Review

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This essay engages Dipesh Chakrabarty, Sumit Guha and James C. Scott by arguing that all of them overlook a historically well-evidenced set of subject positions and concepts of space. This was monastic governmentality. Lay and ordained populations attached to monastic teachers and lineages moved and interacted across a vast network of societies till the eighteenth century. The arrival of colonial European armies in the terrain marked by monastic geographicity led to the creation of sites set apart as ‘Nepal’, ‘colonial Assam’, ‘Burma’ and so on. Hitherto pastoralist but Bon-Buddhist monastic subjects were separated from their ‘brothers’ in monastic subjecthood. Such physical separation was reinforced by historical writing as well. In the twentieth century, colonially educated native scribes embraced both geographical and epistemic projects enthusiastically. Bhuyan, the foremost practitioner of this mode of history writing, thus failed to recognise the Buddhist and Bon Tantric cohabitants of the Brahmaputra river valley. In order to establish what was known of these people before Bhuyan’s time of writing, this essay has been organised in three parts. The first contains a short discussion of monastic governmentality and subjecthood. A second provides a truncated narrative of events that brought Mughal armies in the seventeenth century to the same terrain. The third surveys moments from the Company and British military accounts of 1794–1928 to explain the modern postcolonial Indian historian’s aporia towards Buddhist and Bon Tantric populations living alongside Muslim and Hindu groups in the Brahmaputra valley and plains.

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A New Copper Plate Inscription of Gopala II

Cited by 5 publications

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Subordinate rulers under the P–alas: Their diverse origins and shifting power relation with the king

Subordinate rulers under the P–alas: Their diverse origins and shifting power relation with the king

Monastic ‘Governmentality’: Revisiting ‘Community’ and ‘Communalism’ in South Asia

Ādivāsīs, tribes and other neologisms for erasing precolonial pasts: An example from Northeast India

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