Table of Contents

Introduction: Sanskrit Law Codes and the Royal State. Part I: Historical Prelude 1. Antecedents and Preview 2. Early Vedic Era Part II: Later Vedic Era and Dharma Sūtras 3. Vedic Scriptures, Janapadas, and Women 4. Jaina and Buddhist Canon, States, and Women 5. Dharma Sūtras Part III: Mauryan-Classical Era: Arthaśāstra and Manu Smŗiti 6. Mauryan Empire and Arthaśāstra 7. Early Classical Era 8. Arthaśāstra and Manu Smŗiti Part IV: Later Classical Era: Yājňavalkya Smŗiti and Nārada Smŗiti 9. Pre-Guptan and Guptan Monarchs 10. Yājňavalkya Smŗiti and Nārada Smŗiti. Index.

About the Author

Sita Anantha Raman is Emerita Associate Professor of History at Santa Clara University, where she taught South Asian history and SE Asian history. She is the author of the books Women in India: A Social and Cultural History (Vols 1 and 2; 2009); A.Madhavaiah: A Biography and a Novella (‘Muthumeenakshi’, trans. by Vasantha Surya; 2004); and Getting Girls to School: Social Reform in the Tamil Districts, 1870–1930 (1996); and of various journal articles.