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The present edited volume 'Land and Society in Medieval South India' consists of seventeen research papers, afford a welcome enlargement of the scope of the social, economic and cultural discourse, which dealt with the some of the facets such as geo-political settings, Nayakas of Srikakulam-Vishakhapatnam regions, 'Colonial diarchy' in the Pudukkottai princely state, Tamil-Tulu linkages, agrarian patterns and practices of early and medieval south India, water resource management systems, the medieval Tamil society and class transformation, the ritual functionaries of the Hindu temples, hero stone traditions of medieval Karnataka, Bhakti movement, Buddhist monastic orders, the rock-cut architecture of the Pallavas and other aspects of early and early medieval South India. The strength of this edited volume spotlight the wide range of aspects on the subject as well as projections of the learned scholars on the theme of this book. It is hoped that the readers would be immensely benefitted from the learned exposition of the social, economic, and cultural milieu of the early and medieval south Indian history. Dr. K. Mavali Rajan (b. 1973) is presently Assistant Professor in the Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, Visva-Bharati (A Central University), Santiniketan, West Bengal. He obtained his M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. degree with specialization of early and medieval south Indian history from the School of Historical Studies,Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamil Nadu and also got his Master of Tourism Management degree further from the same university. He has also completed a course on Epigraphy from the Archeological Department of Tamil Nadu in 2000. He started his academic career as a Guest Lecturer and served five years in various Government Arts colleges of Tamil Nadu. He is the author of three books “Medieval Tamil Society and Agrarian Slavery” (Kolkata, 2014), “Temple and Society in South India” (New Delhi, 2016) and “Facets of Temple Culture: Pe