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Rethinking Early Medieval India: A Reader, edited by Upinder Singh, is a book that highlights the complex and multilinear nature of the historical processes of the early medieval period of Indian history. Summary of the Book This title examines the foremost historiographical deliberations and moves beyond them, pouring light on several significant facets of the social, economic, political, and cultural history of the pre-Sultanate and non-Sultanate periods. It brings together a careful selection of readings, including seminal essays and recent writings. The introduction offers a critical and insightful overview and analysis of debates and writings related to a wide range of historical concerns. In doing so, it nurtures new relevant questions, proposes new approaches, and opens up possibilities and opportunities for future research. Comprehensive and thought-provoking, Rethinking Early Medieval India discusses theoretical frameworks like feudalism, segmentary state, and integrative/processual models; political processes, including the communication between states and forest tribes; village and city life, with an emphasis on urban patterns, agrarian structure, trade, varna, jati, and gender, religion, art, and culture within and beyond regional frameworks; and histories of language, literature, ideas, attitudes, and emotions. About Upinder Singh Upinder Singh is an esteemed Indian academician. She is a professor in the history department at the University of Delhi. Prof. Singh has been honoured with the inaugural Infosys Prize in the category of Social Sciences. About Oxford University Press Oxford University Press is a renowned publishing house that develops and publishes high quality textbooks, scholarly works, and academic books for school courses, bilingual dictionaries and also digital materials for both learning and teaching. It is a division of the University of Oxford. The first book was locally published in the year 1912. Some of the books published under their banner are India’s Ancient Past, Atkins’ Physical Chemistry, Companion to Politics in India, Sociology: Themes and Perspectives and Common Mistakes at IELTS Advanced …and How to Avoid Them.