About the Author

Bhairabi Prasad Sahu is professor of history at the University of Delhi. His recent publications include The Changing Gaze: Regions and the Construction of Early India (2013) and Interrogating Political Systems: Integrative Processes and States in Pre-Modern India (2015; edited, with Hermann Kulke). The author of Chapter 4 in this volume, Kesavan Veluthat, is professor of history at the University of Delhi. His publications include The Political Structure of Early Medieval South India (1993), The Early Medieval in South India (2009) and Brahman Settlements in Kerala (2013; second edition).