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lithic complexes with the Southern Neolithic. However, the con- ditions under which this transition took place remain problematic. So too is the question of whether iron metallurgy was acquired from groups using northern Black-and-Red Ware or was an indig- enous, original development in the south. The earliest dates (c. 2000–1500 B.C.) for the transition from Southern Neolithic to Megalithic are at Paiyampalli and Palavoy. By 800 B.C. Mega- lithic sites were found throughout the Deccan. Information about the Megalithic complex remains limited because excavations con- tinue to focus on the megalithic burials themselves rather than the larger habitation areas with which they are often associated. Only a few habitation sites, such as Naikund (21°ree;20'N79°ree;10'E), near Nagpur in Maharashtra, have been excavated. Others are currently under investigation. Until this recent research is completed, an un- derstanding of the Megalithic complex in the south will remain incomplete.

New Sources (in addition to those in the General Bibliography)

G. Erdosy (1988); R. C. Gaur (1983); A. Ghosh (1973); N. C. Ghosh (1986); K. A. R. Kennedy (1975); M. Lal (1984); M. S. Nagaraja Rao (1978); B. Narasimhaiah (1980); K. P. Nautiyal (1989); T. N. Roy (1983, 1986); K. T. S. Sarao (1989); R. S. Sharma (1987); D. M. Srinivasan (1989); A. Sundara (1975); V. K. Thakur (1981); R. Thapar (1984); V. Tripathi (1975).

N.B. Several edited volumes listed for section II.2–5 also have articles relevant to the Iron Age.

Corrigenda

Pp. 8 and 12: On plate II.2, maps (a) and (b) and plate II.6, maps (a), (b), and (i), only modern coast lines should have been indicated (e.g., along the delta of the Ganga). Information on previous coastal configura- tions for the periods in question is too scanty to permit any inferences along the lines we have suggested.

III. From the Vedic through the Classical Age

Scholarship since the publication of HASA 1978 has deepened our understanding of the nature of the political, social, and eco- nomic contexts of early history within both South Asia proper and the more or less Indianized cultural realm of Southeast Asia. The new findings and speculations relative to these concerns are, in many cases, not easily elucidated without the drawing of addi- tional maps. For all essential purposes, however, our overview of the spatial extent of ancient polities within South and Southeast Asia remains as it was. The localized articulation of power rela- tionships and of the various types of interactions among groups within the ancient polities is a task that is now being addressed by a number of historians. New works that warrant citation are indi- cated below for the sections and individual map plates for which they are most relevant.

New Sources

III in General: F. R. Allchin and N. Hammond (1982); O. P. Bhardwaj (1986); G. M. Bongard-Levin (1986); B. O'Leary (1989); G. Pollet, ed. (1987); K. D. Sethna (1989); B. G. Tamaskar (1985).

Plates III.A.1 and 2: V. Mani (1975), under "General Refer- ences."

Plate III.B.1: S. Chattopadhyaya (1977); R. Thapar (1984).

Plate III.B.3: P. H. L. Eggermont (1975); K. Karttunen (1989); J. W. Sedlar (1980).

Plate III.B.4: S. Chattopadhyaya (1977); G. Erdosy (1988).

Plate III.B.5: A. Hirakawa (1990); K. T. S. Sarao (1989).

Plate III.C.1 and 2: G. Erdosy (1988); C. Margabandhu (1985); B. N. Mukherjee (1988); H. P. Ray (1986); S. Shrava (1981).

Plate III.C3: A. Hirakawa (1990); H. P. Ray (1986).

Plate III.C.5: P. D. Curtin (1984); K. Karttunen (1989); H. J. Liu (1988); J. W. Sedlar (1980); D. Sinor, ed. (1990).

Plate III.D.1: A. Agrawal (1989); D. K. Ganguly (1987); S. K. Maity (1975); H. Pathak (1978); K. V. Ramesh, ed. (1974); R. S. Sharma (1987); T. R. Sharma (1989); B. Sheikh Ali (1976); S. Shrava (1981); K. M. Shrimali (1987).

Plate III.D.2: D. P. Dikshit (1980); K. V. Ramesh (1984); K. V. Ramesh, ed. (1984); R. S. Sharma (1987); B. Sheikh Ali (1976); B. Stein (1980), (1984).

Plate III.D.3: I. Mani (1975), under "General References"; L. Rocher (1986).

Plate III.D.4: S. K. Maity (1975).

Plate III.D.6: K. R. Hall (1985).

Corrigenda

P. 13, map (a), "VEDIC INDIA": The town of Vinaśana (grid square D3) is incorrectly shown above the confluence of the ancient River Sarasvatī with the D&rtod;&stod;advatī; it should be shown further to the west and below that confluence. The town of Sarya&ntod;āvant, incorrectly shown in the northern part of the Kuruk&stod;etra region (grid square E3), should actually be situated in the southern part of that region. The town of Triplak&stod;a (grid square D3) should have been shown on the right bank of the Yamunā River just to the south of where it emerges onto the Gangetic Plain (grid square E3). The people designated as Śālvas (grid square E3), whom we have indi- cated in what was their principal late Vedic locale, should also be indi- cated to the north of the people designated as Usinaras (also in E3) in what are today the Dehra Dun and Jaunsar-Bawar regions), which is the area that they occupied in early Vedic times. The non-Aryan people des- ignated as Ni&stod;ādas (grid square D4), whom we have plotted according to their late Vedic location, should also have been noted according to their early location in the vicinity of the aforementioned town of Vinaśana. For the Śālvas, Ni&stod;ādas, and several other ill-defined and migratory peoples of the long Vedic period covered by our map, a case could be made for several locations in addition to those that we originally saw fit to plot. The names of the peoples (and realms) known as Matsya (grid squares DE4) and Cedi (E4) and of the towns of Hastināpura (grid square E3), Ayodhyā and Kāśī (F4), and Mithilā (G4) should have been underlined to signify their existence in the late, rather than the early, Vedic period.

P. 13, map (b), "INDIA AS REVEALED IN THE RĀMĀYA&Ntod;A": Stud- ies to which we did not have access when this map was drawn and others which have appeared subsequently have identified a number of places mentioned in the Rāmāya&ntod;a that do not appear on our map. In his study of the Ayodhyā Kā&ntod;&dtod;a portion of the text, for example, O. P. Bhardwaj (1986) cites a number of places along the route of the messengers sent to fetch Bhārata from Kekaya and along Bhārata's route to Ayodhyā.

P. 14, "INDIA AS REVEALED IN THE MAHĀBHĀRATA": The peo- ple designated as "Yaudheyas" (grid square D3) should properly have been plotted in the vicinity of the town of Rohītaka (grid square E3). The region they occupied was known as "Bahudhānyaka," which should have been shown as a janapada on our map. The people designated as "Yo- gandharas" (grid squares DE3) should have been spelled "Yugandharas."

Pp. 19, 20, and 21: The town of Kali&ndot;ganagara (grid square G6) should properly have been plotted well to the northeast at the site of Sisupalgarh (shown on p. 14 in grid square G5), near modern Bhubaneswar; it is not to be confused with the later Kali&ndot;ganagara (grid square G6) shown on pp. 25–34 (passim). The region of Kali&ndot;ga, as shown on p. 20 (grid squares FG6), should have been shown as extending further to the north- east, as indicated on pp. 19 and 21.

IV. Kingdoms and Regional Cultures of the Eighth Century Through the Twelfth Century

The introductory paragraph relative to Chapter III, above, ap- plies equally to Chapter IV. We noted there the concern of various scholars with the means by which power relationships were spa- tially articulated within various South Asian polities. Much new light has recently been shed on this subject through study of the vast epigraphic corpus from a number of regions of South Asia, especially peninsular India. Epitomizing this line of empirical in- quiry are the statistical analyses of Co&lline;a inscriptions by Karashima and Subbarayalu (1978). These have resulted in detailed, large- scale maps of localized units of governance for large areas of Tamil Nadu. Drawing largely on such research, Stein (1980) has put for- ward a theory of a loosely configured "segmentary state" to ex- plain the nature of the Co&lline;a polity. His suggestion that the model applied as well to many other medieval states in India has found considerable favor among historians and will undoubtedly form a basis for many future investigations.

New Sources

IV in General: B. O'Leary (1989); B. Stein (1980), (1984); A. Wink (1990).

Plate IV.1: M. Abraham (1988); B. K. K. Deambi (1985); D. P. Dikshit (1980); K. R. Hall (1980); N. Karashima (1984), listed under "General References"; N. Karashima and Y. Subba- rayalu (1978), listed under "General References"; K. V. Ramesh, ed. (1984); A. Rehman (1979); R. S. Sharma (1987); B. Sheikh Ali (1976); Y. Subbarayalu (1973).

Plate IV.2: M. Abraham (1988); C. E. Bosworth (1977); B. K. K. Deambi (1985); K. R. Hall (1980); Y. A. Hashmi (1988); N. Karashima (1984), listed under "General References"; N. Ka- rashima and Y. Subbarayalu (1978), listed under "General Refer- ences"; M. K. Kumari (1985); C. V. Ramachandra Rao (1976); A. Rehman (1979); N. Sethuraman (1980); B. Sheikh Ali (1976); Y. Subbarayalu (1973).

Plate IV.3: M. G. S. Hodgson (1974).

Plate IV.6: K. R. Hall (1985); W. M. Sirisena (1978); G. R. Tibbetts (1979); D. K. Wyatt (1984).

Corrigenda

P. 34, "RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL SITES, 8TH–12TH CENTU- RIES": Kuruk&stod;etra (grid square E3) is incorrectly shown as a cultural site separate from the site of Sthānvīśvara (to its north) to which it was vir- tually contiguous. The town of Belur (grid square E7 on inset C) is incor- rectly plotted; its correct location is shown on p. 38, map (b) (grid square D7). Additionally, the symbol signifying "temple or shrine with sculp- ture" should have been plotted alongside it.

V. The Period of the Delhi Sultanate

The introductory observations for sections III and IV, above, are largely applicable for section V as well. It should, addition- ally, be noted that our expanding comprehension of the Sultanate Period of South Asian history is contingent on progress in the ar- duous task of translation of the large corpus of primary texts, mainly in Persian, that, along with epigraphic sources, provides the essen- tial foundation for new historical work on the period. Of note, too, is the ongoing large-scale, long-term international project to ex- plore the ancient site of Vijayanagara and its environs, the findings of which are throwing much valuable new light on the spatial or- ganization of medieval Hindu polities and on the nature of urban- ization within such polities (cf., inter alia, the cited new sources edited by Dallapiccola and co-authored by Fritz, George, and Na- garaja Rao).

New Sources

V in General: M. G. S. Hodgson (1974); H. K. Naqvi (1976); B. O'Leary (1989); B. Stein (1980), (1984).

Plate V.1: J. Abu-Lughod (1989); M. S. Ahluwalia (1978); K. N. Chaudhuri (1985), (1988); P. D. Curtin (1984); B. K. K. Deambi (1985); V. A. Hashmi (1988); L. Kwanten (1975); B. F. Manz (1989); S. Neill (1984); T. Raychaudhuri and I. Habib (1982); G. R. Tibbetts (1979).

Plates V.2, 3, and 4: M. Abraham (1988); M. S. Ahluwalia (1978); A. L. Dallapiccola, ed. (1985); B. K. K. Deambi (1985); R. M. Eaton (1978); J. Fritz, M. George, and M. S. Nagaraja Rao (1984); K. R. Hall (1980); N. Karashima (1984), under "General References"; N. Karashima and Y. Subbarayalu (1978), under "General References"; M. K. Kumari (1985); M. S. Na- garaja Rao (1985); G. S. K. Niazi (1990); S. Pathmanathan (1978); C. V. Ramachandra Rao (1976); I. Riazul (1979–82), under "General References"; J. P. V. Somaratne (1975); B. Stein (1989); Y. Subbarayalu (1973); R. Subrahmanyam, comp. (1986).

Plate V.5: A. C. Banerjee (1982); R. M. Eaton (1978); H. K. Sherwani and P. M. Joshi, eds. (1974); M. S. Siddiqi (1979).

Plate V.7: J. Abu-Lughod (1989); M. Aung-Thwin (1985); K. R. Hall (1985); C. Kasetsiri (1976); W. M. Sirisena (1978); G. R. Tibbetts (1979); D. K. Wyatt (1984).

Corrigenda

P. 35, title: For "8TH-12TH CENTURIES," read "8TH-13TH CENTU- RIES."

P. 38, "—KHALJĪS AND TUGHLUQS—," and p. 39, "POLITICAL DISINTEGRATION—C. 1390–1450": On both these maps the town of Sarsutī (grid square D3) is incorrectly plotted. The correct location, to the northeast, may be seen on the map on p. 40.

P. 41, map (a), "RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL SITES—": The im- portant Jain pilgrimage site of Satru&nmacr;jaya in Gujarat has been omitted; for its proper location see p. 34 (grid square C5).

P. 41, map (b), "SUFI ORDERS,—": Bījāpur should be added as a center of the Qādiri, Shattāri, and Chishti orders of Sufism and Bīdar as a center for the Qādiri order; both sites are located on map (a).

P. 41, map (c), "SAINTS AND POETS OF THE BHAKTI MOVEMENT —": Narasi&mtod;ha Mehta, shown in the box for Gujarat as a 15th-century saint, is now believed properly to have been active in the 16th century and, therefore, should have been plotted on the relevant map on p. 47.

VI. The Mughal Period

For historical geographic purposes, the most important new work on Mughal India is, without a doubt, Irfan Habib's meticulously documented Atlas of the Mughal Empire (1982). The political and economic detail presented in that exemplary work goes far beyond what we have been able to present in HASA 1978 and will provide benchmark information for many other regional studies. So too will other basic research by scholars at Aligarh Muslim University (e.g., Athar Ali, 1985; and Moosvi, 1987). At a very different scale of enquiry are studies that seek to explain and document the manner of South Asia's integration into the emerging global sys- tem, often following modes of inquiry pioneered by Braudel or the global systems perspective of Wallerstein. S. Chandra, K. N. Chaudhuri, A. Das Gupta, and M. N. Pearson, all cited below, are among the most active historians pursuing such research.

New Sources

VI in General: K. N. Chaudhuri (1978); S. Gole (1989), listed under "Atlases"; T. Raychaudhuri and I. Habib (1982).

VI.A in General: M. Athar Ali (1985); I. P. Gupta (1986); I. Habib (1982), listed under "Atlases"; B. O'Leary (1989); G. Singh (1988); I. Riazul (1979–82), listed under "General References."

Plate VI.A.1: J.-B.-J. Gentil (1989), listed under "Atlases"; M. Hasan (1985); A. R. Khan (1977); R. Shyam (1978); D. E. Streusand (1989).

Plate VI.A.2: A. R. Khan (1977); S. Moosvi (1987); D. E. Streusand (1989).

Plate VI.A.3: M. A. L. Azad (1990); S. P. Blake (1991); G. C. Dwivedi (1989); R. C. Hallissey (1977); G. J. Kulkarni (1983); J. F. Richards (1975); J. N. Sarkar (1979); A. Wink (1986).

Plate VI.A.4: K. Schomer and H. E. W. McLeod, eds. (1987).

VI.B in General: C. R. Boxer (1979); F. Broeze, ed. (1989); J.

Correia-Afonso (1981); L. De Albuquerque and I. Guerreiro, eds. (1985); T. R. De Souza (1985).

Plate VI.B.1: F. Braudel (1979); S. Chandra (1987); K. N.

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