I offer my homage to the doyen among the Epigraphists and Historians of Andhra (viz.) Late Sri M. Sömaśekhara Sarma, whose writings were a source of inspiration for me in the prosecution of the present work. So is Late R. Subbarao whose writings also helped me a lot in mouldling the work to the present shape. To them I express my sense of gratitude and offer my respectful homage. I owe a deep debt of gratitude to Late Dr. N. Ramesan, the then Director-General of Archaeology, Government of Andhra Pradesh for kindly permitting me to prosecute the work. My sincerest and heartful thanks go to my guide and mentor Sri M.L.K. Murthy, M.A., Ph.D., Deccan College, Poona under whose able guidance I could pursue the work.
It is my pleasant duty to record my thanks to my esteemed friends-cum-scholars Sri Dr. C.V. Ramachandra Rao and Dr. Y. Gopala Reddy who evinced keen interest in the work and gone through the work at every stage of its preparation.
Finally I am thankful to Sri P. Satyanarayana, Technical Assistant, who typed the manuscript neatly for the press in record time with diligence and care.
Since about two decades this "conventional" study of medieval Indian history has been challenged by a thorough discussion about conceptual frameworks and the applicability of the concepts of "Indian Feudalism" (R.S. Sharma) and, more recently the "Segmentary State" (B. Stein). But these theoretical discussions in many cases still suffer from the fact that so far only very few structural analyses on the basis of the whole corpus of the respective inscriptions exist.In the context of Modern Indian historiography early medieval history for a long time had either been neglected (e.g. Oxford History of India) or equated with mere dynastic "histories". It was only due to the intensive work of great Indian historians (like K.A.N. Sastri, A.S. Altekar and R.C. Majumdar) and their joined efforts in monumental series like the "History and Culture of the Indian People" and "The Early History of the Deccan" that medieval Hindu kingdoms received due attention. But despite their undeniable merits, these great monographs on dynastic or regional history (e.g. on the Colas and Rastrakutas and on Bengal) had the disadvantage to delink the administrative structure, the social and religious conditions from the respective political and dynastic histories and to deal with these important aspects of an overall historical process in separate chapters or appendices. This has led to a "compartmentalization" and often even a gazetteer societal and cultural aspects. like depiction of Indian history and its various. Since about two decades this "conventional" study of medieval Indian history has been challenged by a thorough discussion about conceptual frameworks and the applicability of the concepts of "Indian Feudalism" (R.S. Sharma) and, more recently the "Segmentary State" (B. Stein). But these theoretical discussions in many cases still suffer from the fact that so far only very few structural analyses on the basis of the whole corpus of the respective inscriptions exist.
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