Daud Ali
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 213773 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Daud Ali |
| PRENOMES | Daud |
| SOBRENOME | Ali |
| ASSINATURA | ALI D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | California University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-8566-8890 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Rural Violence and Warfare in Medieval South India
This paper explores the problem of rural violence in medieval South India through a study of hero-stones collected from the districts of lower Karnataka between the 9th and 13th centuries. These documents reveal a world of everyday violence in which the countryside emerges as a space of potentially open-ended belligerence, and the peasant an armed agent. Furthermore, hero-stone inscriptions suggest that localized rural violence was continuous wit…
Mathematics and Society
From the Interstices of History
A New Inscription of the Pāṇḍuvaṃśins of Dakṣiṇa Kosala
This is the first notice, edition, and translation of a royal order in Sanskrit, engraved on a set of three copper-plates kept in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The inscription is dated to the seventh year of the reign of Nannarāja I , king of the Pāṇḍuvaṃśin lineage active in Dakṣiṇa Kosala in the sixth and seventh centuries CE . The inscription provides important new information about a family of engravers, probably…
Towards a history of courtly emotions in early medieval India, c. 300–700 CE
The birth of courtly emotions in early India was intimately linked to the proliferation of royal households across the subcontinent between the fourth and seventh centuries CE. Though earlier political formations saw the consolidation of monarchy, the rise of imperial ideology, and the evolution of royal functionaries, sources neither shed light upon, nor stress, the affective world of individuals around the king and his court until the first cen…
Verses at the Court of the King
This essay argues that the rise and circulation of large numbers of Sanskrit literary anthologies as well as story traditions about poets in the second millennium together index important changes in the ‘author-function’ within the Sanskrit literary tradition. While modern ‘empirical authorship’ and external referentiality in Sanskrit has long been deemed ‘elusive'by Western scholarship, the new forms of literary production in the second millenni…
Violence, courtly manners and lineage formation in early medieval India1
This chapter examines the attitudes toward uncouth, vulgar and violent behaviors among the aristocratic elites through the lens of a specific social transformation widespread in early medieval society—that of courticization of warrior lineages through varied spaces. It endeavors to understand behavioral inclinations both socially and historically. The point of this essay will be not so much to apply Elias’ theory of ‘civilization’ to medieval Ind…
Rethinking Early Medieval India
Rethinking Early Medieval India: A Reader. Edited by Upinder Singh. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xiv + 354. Rs. 1240
Garden and Landscape Practice in Pre-colonial India
This book presents a set of new and innovative essays on landscape and garden culture in precolonial India, with a special focus on the Deccan. Most research to date has concentrated on the comparatively well preserved gardens and built landscapes of the celebrated Mughal empire, giving the impression that they have been lacking in other times and regions. Not only does this volume provide a corrective to such assumptions, it also moves away from…
Friendship in Indian History
Cynthia Talbot. The Last Hindu Emperor
In The Last Hindu Emperor: Prithviraj Chauhan and the Indian Past, 1200–2000, Cynthia Talbot seeks to excavate the layers of memory sedimented around the celebrated Indian king Prithviraj Chauhan (1166–1192). Defeated by the armies of Shihab al-Din (Muhammad Ghuri) at the end of the twelfth century, Prithviraj came to be the subject of numerous story cycles beginning shortly after his own life and continuing down to the twentieth century. In this…
The Death of a Friend
This article argues that the languages of loyalty and affiliation that marked public and formal relations of service and hierarchy in medieval India, though traditionally understood as thinly veiled pretexts for class exploitation or self-aggrandizement, may instead be interpreted, when combined with other sorts of sources, as elements within a larger ethical landscape where men of rank shared varieties of companionship and intimacy with one anot…
Bhoja's Mechanical Garden
Courtly cultures
The idea of the medieval in the writing of South Asian history
The concept of the ‘medieval’ in South Asia has been a long and contested one. From its origins among colonial administrators to its present-day habitation in educational institutions, the study of
Temporality, narration and the problem of history
The articles in this issue contribute to a paradigm shift in our approaches to historical discourse in precolonial South Asia. Rather than posing again the well-worn question of whether the Rājataraṅgiṇī should be considered a properly ‘historical’ text or a work of poetry, they focus on the complex and often hybrid sytlistic, thematic and aesthetic ‘lineages’ of the text, to understand how Kalhaṇa was able to articulate a unique vision of the pa…
The Historiography of the Medieval in South Asia
Colonial scholars and administrators in the latter half of the nineteenth century were the first to subject South Asia to modern historicist scrutiny. Using coins, inscriptions, and chronicles, they determined the dates and identities of numerous kings and dynasties within an apparently scrupulous empiricist framework. From the 1930s, with the widespread rise of nationalist sentiment, South Asian scholars began to write about their own past. The …
Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Institutions in Colonial India
Padmaśrī’s Nāgarasarvasva and the World of Medieval Kāmaśāstra
Rethinking the History of the Kāma World in Early India
Généalogies de la vertu
Le sujet de l'éthique et de la morale a suscité, ces dernières années, un renouveau d'attention dans nombre de disciplines des sciences humaines et sociales. À partir de certains des travaux récents sur ce sujet, cet essai esquisse de nouvelles directions de recherche pour l'étude de l'éthique en Asie du Sud. Les approches antérieures tendaient à considérer l'éthique soit comme un système entièrement conceptuel, soit comme une forme de fausse con…
Between Market and Court
Relations between royal courts and merchant groups have been a frequently discussed but narrowly circumscribed topic in early Indian history—with analyses confined to mutual gains acquired through interactions. Using the careers of two merchant families active at the Hoysala court in south India at the end of the twelfth century as a starting point, this essay explores the existence of “shared” worlds between court and market, and focuses particu…
The service retinues of the Chola court
Drawing on the large corpus of Chola period Tamil inscriptions, this paper attempts to clarify the meaning of the apparently obscure and neglected term in Tamil epigraphy, known as veḷam. The paper argues that the term in Chola period sources should best be understood as a "palace establishment" composed mostly of women (and sometimes men) of servile status. A relatively comprehensive review of the term in inscriptions and literature sheds signif…
Gardens in Early Indian Court Life
He indeed is king whose abode has spacious pleasure gardens with long pools made brilliant by beautiful lotus blossoms covered with humming bees.... Wealth, friends well-versed in the arts, the sound of melodious lutes, and beautiful women with young and charming bodies— all these will be without fruit for the king seeking the pleasure of all, if there are no pleasure gardens. Śā rngadharapaddhati
Anxieties of Attachment
The copious literature on love in early India has most recently been interpreted as a variant of the universal experience of human sexuality. Studies have rooted the uniqueness of Indian ideas either in theological conceptions of the immanent and transcendent, or in the particularity of the parent-child relation in India. Whatever the insights of such scholarship, two major problems relevant to this essay are its positioning of a 'civilizational'…
Querying the Medieval
Indologist Ronald Inden has in the past raised questions about the images of a “traditional” or “medieval” India deployed by colonial scholars and rulers - “Orientalists” - and has also argued that a history of “early medieval” India very different from both the colonial and nationalist accounts could be written. This volume is designed as an important first step towards that goal. The authors look closely at three genres of texts that have been …
Temporality, narration and the problem of history
The articles in this issue contribute to a paradigm shift in our approaches to historical discourse in precolonial South Asia. Rather than posing again the well-worn question of whether the Rājataraṅgiṇī should be considered a properly ‘historical’ text or a work of poetry, they focus on the complex and often hybrid sytlistic, thematic and aesthetic ‘lineages’ of the text, to understand how Kalhaṇa was able to articulate a unique vision of the pa…
Anxieties of Attachment
The copious literature on love in early India has most recently been interpreted as a variant of the universal experience of human sexuality. Studies have rooted the uniqueness of Indian ideas either in theological conceptions of the immanent and transcendent, or in the particularity of the parent-child relation in India. Whatever the insights of such scholarship, two major problems relevant to this essay are its positioning of a 'civilizational'…
Rethinking the History of the Kāma World in Early India
Gardens in Early Indian Court Life
He indeed is king whose abode has spacious pleasure gardens with long pools made brilliant by beautiful lotus blossoms covered with humming bees.... Wealth, friends well-versed in the arts, the sound of melodious lutes, and beautiful women with young and charming bodies— all these will be without fruit for the king seeking the pleasure of all, if there are no pleasure gardens. Śā rngadharapaddhati
Violence, Gastronomy and the Meanings of War in Medieval South India
This essay argues that the imagery of battle in Cayankontā r's twelfth-century poem, the Kalinkattupparani, composed at the court of Kulō ttunka Cō la, may tell us little about the practicalities of warfare in medieval India, but it does help us understand the meaning of war for medieval south Indian courts. Its imagery, corroborated by inscriptional accounts, at first suggests linkages with earlier notions of agonistic sacrifice, but on closer e…
Violence, courtly manners and lineage formation in early medieval India1
This chapter examines the attitudes toward uncouth, vulgar and violent behaviors among the aristocratic elites through the lens of a specific social transformation widespread in early medieval society—that of courticization of warrior lineages through varied spaces. It endeavors to understand behavioral inclinations both socially and historically. The point of this essay will be not so much to apply Elias’ theory of ‘civilization’ to medieval Ind…
The Death of a Friend
This article argues that the languages of loyalty and affiliation that marked public and formal relations of service and hierarchy in medieval India, though traditionally understood as thinly veiled pretexts for class exploitation or self-aggrandizement, may instead be interpreted, when combined with other sorts of sources, as elements within a larger ethical landscape where men of rank shared varieties of companionship and intimacy with one anot…
Bhoja's Mechanical Garden
The idea of the medieval in the writing of South Asian history
The concept of the ‘medieval’ in South Asia has been a long and contested one. From its origins among colonial administrators to its present-day habitation in educational institutions, the study of
Technologies of the Self
This paper attempts to link the growth of courtly and monastic practices as related historical phenomena in early historic India. The consolidation of urban courts and monastic communities represented a departure from the Vedic way of life in the context of new social relations and increasing urbanisation. Urban society and Buddhist monasticism, as scholars have pointed out, were linked materially and sociologically. This paper explores this link…
A New Inscription of the Pāṇḍuvaṃśins of Dakṣiṇa Kosala
This is the first notice, edition, and translation of a royal order in Sanskrit, engraved on a set of three copper-plates kept in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The inscription is dated to the seventh year of the reign of Nannarāja I , king of the Pāṇḍuvaṃśin lineage active in Dakṣiṇa Kosala in the sixth and seventh centuries CE . The inscription provides important new information about a family of engravers, probably…
Friendship in Indian History
The Historiography of the Medieval in South Asia
Colonial scholars and administrators in the latter half of the nineteenth century were the first to subject South Asia to modern historicist scrutiny. Using coins, inscriptions, and chronicles, they determined the dates and identities of numerous kings and dynasties within an apparently scrupulous empiricist framework. From the 1930s, with the widespread rise of nationalist sentiment, South Asian scholars began to write about their own past. The …
Padmaśrī’s Nāgarasarvasva and the World of Medieval Kāmaśāstra
The service retinues of the Chola court
Drawing on the large corpus of Chola period Tamil inscriptions, this paper attempts to clarify the meaning of the apparently obscure and neglected term in Tamil epigraphy, known as veḷam. The paper argues that the term in Chola period sources should best be understood as a "palace establishment" composed mostly of women (and sometimes men) of servile status. A relatively comprehensive review of the term in inscriptions and literature sheds signif…
Technologies of the Self
This paper attempts to link the growth of courtly and monastic practices as related historical phenomena in early historic India. The consolidation of urban courts and monastic communities represented a departure from the Vedic way of life in the context of new social relations and increasing urbanisation. Urban society and Buddhist monasticism, as scholars have pointed out, were linked materially and sociologically. This paper explores this link…
Royal Eulogy as World History
The practice of inscribing words onto metal or stone has had a long history in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia—a history that has always had complicated relationships with other sorts of textual production. In addition, the reading of these inscriptions has also had a history—at least as long as that of the inscriptions themselves. I stress this because I want to contend that the way scholars read and reproduced inscriptions is today neither se…
Violence, Gastronomy and the Meanings of War in Medieval South India
This essay argues that the imagery of battle in Cayankontā r's twelfth-century poem, the Kalinkattupparani, composed at the court of Kulō ttunka Cō la, may tell us little about the practicalities of warfare in medieval India, but it does help us understand the meaning of war for medieval south Indian courts. Its imagery, corroborated by inscriptional accounts, at first suggests linkages with earlier notions of agonistic sacrifice, but on closer e…
Querying the Medieval
Indologist Ronald Inden has in the past raised questions about the images of a “traditional” or “medieval” India deployed by colonial scholars and rulers - “Orientalists” - and has also argued that a history of “early medieval” India very different from both the colonial and nationalist accounts could be written. This volume is designed as an important first step towards that goal. The authors look closely at three genres of texts that have been …
Donors, Devotees, and Daughters of God
Journal Article Donors, Devotees, and Daughters of God: Temple Women in Medieval Tamilnadu, Leslie C. Orr Get access Daud Ali Daud Ali School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 467, June 2001, Pages 708–709, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.467.708 Published: 01 June 2001
Anxieties of Attachment
The copious literature on love in early India has most recently been interpreted as a variant of the universal experience of human sexuality. Studies have rooted the uniqueness of Indian ideas either in theological conceptions of the immanent and transcendent, or in the particularity of the parent-child relation in India. Whatever the insights of such scholarship, two major problems relevant to this essay are its positioning of a 'civilizational'…
Gardens in Early Indian Court Life
He indeed is king whose abode has spacious pleasure gardens with long pools made brilliant by beautiful lotus blossoms covered with humming bees.... Wealth, friends well-versed in the arts, the sound of melodious lutes, and beautiful women with young and charming bodies— all these will be without fruit for the king seeking the pleasure of all, if there are no pleasure gardens. Śā rngadharapaddhati
The service retinues of the Chola court
Drawing on the large corpus of Chola period Tamil inscriptions, this paper attempts to clarify the meaning of the apparently obscure and neglected term in Tamil epigraphy, known as veḷam. The paper argues that the term in Chola period sources should best be understood as a "palace establishment" composed mostly of women (and sometimes men) of servile status. A relatively comprehensive review of the term in inscriptions and literature sheds signif…
Between Market and Court
Relations between royal courts and merchant groups have been a frequently discussed but narrowly circumscribed topic in early Indian history—with analyses confined to mutual gains acquired through interactions. Using the careers of two merchant families active at the Hoysala court in south India at the end of the twelfth century as a starting point, this essay explores the existence of “shared” worlds between court and market, and focuses particu…
Généalogies de la vertu
Le sujet de l'éthique et de la morale a suscité, ces dernières années, un renouveau d'attention dans nombre de disciplines des sciences humaines et sociales. À partir de certains des travaux récents sur ce sujet, cet essai esquisse de nouvelles directions de recherche pour l'étude de l'éthique en Asie du Sud. Les approches antérieures tendaient à considérer l'éthique soit comme un système entièrement conceptuel, soit comme une forme de fausse con…
Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Institutions in Colonial India
Padmaśrī’s Nāgarasarvasva and the World of Medieval Kāmaśāstra
Rethinking the History of the Kāma World in Early India
The Historiography of the Medieval in South Asia
Colonial scholars and administrators in the latter half of the nineteenth century were the first to subject South Asia to modern historicist scrutiny. Using coins, inscriptions, and chronicles, they determined the dates and identities of numerous kings and dynasties within an apparently scrupulous empiricist framework. From the 1930s, with the widespread rise of nationalist sentiment, South Asian scholars began to write about their own past. The …
Temporality, narration and the problem of history
The articles in this issue contribute to a paradigm shift in our approaches to historical discourse in precolonial South Asia. Rather than posing again the well-worn question of whether the Rājataraṅgiṇī should be considered a properly ‘historical’ text or a work of poetry, they focus on the complex and often hybrid sytlistic, thematic and aesthetic ‘lineages’ of the text, to understand how Kalhaṇa was able to articulate a unique vision of the pa…
The idea of the medieval in the writing of South Asian history
The concept of the ‘medieval’ in South Asia has been a long and contested one. From its origins among colonial administrators to its present-day habitation in educational institutions, the study of
Courtly cultures
Bhoja's Mechanical Garden
Friendship in Indian History
Cynthia Talbot. The Last Hindu Emperor
In The Last Hindu Emperor: Prithviraj Chauhan and the Indian Past, 1200–2000, Cynthia Talbot seeks to excavate the layers of memory sedimented around the celebrated Indian king Prithviraj Chauhan (1166–1192). Defeated by the armies of Shihab al-Din (Muhammad Ghuri) at the end of the twelfth century, Prithviraj came to be the subject of numerous story cycles beginning shortly after his own life and continuing down to the twentieth century. In this…
The Death of a Friend
This article argues that the languages of loyalty and affiliation that marked public and formal relations of service and hierarchy in medieval India, though traditionally understood as thinly veiled pretexts for class exploitation or self-aggrandizement, may instead be interpreted, when combined with other sorts of sources, as elements within a larger ethical landscape where men of rank shared varieties of companionship and intimacy with one anot…
Garden and Landscape Practice in Pre-colonial India
This book presents a set of new and innovative essays on landscape and garden culture in precolonial India, with a special focus on the Deccan. Most research to date has concentrated on the comparatively well preserved gardens and built landscapes of the celebrated Mughal empire, giving the impression that they have been lacking in other times and regions. Not only does this volume provide a corrective to such assumptions, it also moves away from…
Towards a history of courtly emotions in early medieval India, c. 300–700 CE
The birth of courtly emotions in early India was intimately linked to the proliferation of royal households across the subcontinent between the fourth and seventh centuries CE. Though earlier political formations saw the consolidation of monarchy, the rise of imperial ideology, and the evolution of royal functionaries, sources neither shed light upon, nor stress, the affective world of individuals around the king and his court until the first cen…
Verses at the Court of the King
This essay argues that the rise and circulation of large numbers of Sanskrit literary anthologies as well as story traditions about poets in the second millennium together index important changes in the ‘author-function’ within the Sanskrit literary tradition. While modern ‘empirical authorship’ and external referentiality in Sanskrit has long been deemed ‘elusive'by Western scholarship, the new forms of literary production in the second millenni…
Violence, courtly manners and lineage formation in early medieval India1
This chapter examines the attitudes toward uncouth, vulgar and violent behaviors among the aristocratic elites through the lens of a specific social transformation widespread in early medieval society—that of courticization of warrior lineages through varied spaces. It endeavors to understand behavioral inclinations both socially and historically. The point of this essay will be not so much to apply Elias’ theory of ‘civilization’ to medieval Ind…
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