History of Mithila, Vajji & Anga: From Prehistory to the Contemporary Period
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Volume I - Prehistory and Protohistory 1
Chapter 1. Region, rivers, names, and method...................................................................... 2
Chapter 2. Archaeology and early food production............................................................. 20
Chapter 3. Late prehistoric and early iron-using horizons.................................................. 36
Chapter 4. Environment, mobility, and settlement.............................................................. 52
Volume II - Ancient Mithila, Vajji and Anga 67
Chapter 5. Videha in Vedic and Upanishadic textual worlds.............................................. 68
Chapter 6. Janaka, Sita, and the discipline of reading tradition........................................... 85
Chapter 7. Vajji, the Licchavis, and Vaishali...................................................................... 105
Chapter 8. Anga, Champa, and the Magadhan horizon..................................................... 126
Chapter 9. Buddhism, Jainism, and eastern Gangetic religious change............................ 139
Chapter 10. Empires, inscriptions, and pilgrim itineraries................................................. 161
Chapter 11. Licchavi Nepal and the problem of continuity.............................................. 182
Volume III - Medieval Period 204
Chapter 12. Tirabhukti and the early-medieval regional order.......................................... 205
Chapter 13. The Karnatas and Simraongarh...................................................................... 227
Chapter 14. Oiniwar rule, Sultanate power, and political transition.................................. 252
Chapter 15. Two Vidyāpatis: Maithili, Sanskrit learning, and law..................................... 274
Chapter 16. Mughal-era Tirhut, Anga, and early-modern institutions.............................. 298
Volume IV - Modern Period 323
Chapter 17. Company rule, Permanent Settlement, and Darbhanga Raj.......................... 324
Chapter 18. Agrarian society, markets, caste, and labour.................................................. 350
Chapter 19. Rivers, calamity, transport, and the colonial state.......................................... 372
Chapter 20. Education, print, language, reform, and nationalism..................................... 393
Chapter 21. The Nepal Tarai, Rana rule, and the border to 1951..................................... 419
Volume V - Contemporary Period 442
Chapter 22. Land reform, democracy, and changing regional power............................... 443
Chapter 23. The India-Nepal borderland, migration, and exchange................................. 458
Chapter 24. Maithili and Angika: language, literature, and recognition............................ 477
Chapter 25. Mithila painting, gender, and the cultural economy....................................... 499
Chapter 26. The Kosi, floods, infrastructure, and environmental risk............................. 524
Chapter 27. Madhesh, representation, and plural citizenship in Nepal............................. 554
Chapter 28. Conclusions: connected histories without false unity.................................... 588
Consolidated chronology......................................................................................................... 617
Glossary and place-name concordance................................................................................... 635
General source register............................................................................................................ 654
Index......................................................................................................................................... 679
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Gajendra Thakur, MBA (Finance), Post Graduate in Law, PG Diploma in Cyber Law & Cyber Forensics, CIC, CLD, Kovid in Samskrit, is editor of Videha, Ist Maithili Language Fortnightly eJournal ISSN 2229-547X at www.videha.co.in
