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state the limitations of the foreign travellers account of the early medieval period​

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NATURE OF STATE

The Medieval Period of Indian History comprises a long period, spanning from

6th century i.e after the fall of the Gupta Empire to the 18th century, i.e the

beginning of colonial domination.Modern historians, for the convenience of

studying the state and society of medieval India, usually divide the period into

Early Medieval Period and Late Medieval Period. According to them the Early

Medieval period refer to the phase of Indian history that stretches from the fall

of the Gupta Empire to the beginning of the Sultanate period in the 13th

century. The period that comprises mainly that of the reigns of the Sultanate

and the Mughal period is generally considered as the late medieval period, of

course with regional variations.

The nature of state in the early medieval period is marked by the presence of

a large number of regional and local powers, in the absence of a paramount

power in the country. However, this period witnessed the presence of formidable

political entities, often characterized by certain historians as ‘regional imperial

kingdoms’.But in the late medieval period, especially in the Sultanate and

Mughal reigns, high level of centralization of power is identifies, that too in the

major parts of the Indian sub continent.

Nationalist historiography tried to view the entire medieval period as one and

also tried to establish the existence of centralized empire, as a continuation of

the ancient empires, thereby negating the elements of changes that took place

in the nature of state during the period.They followed the ‘tripartite’ division of

the colonial historians, with certain qualitative shifts.The Marxist historiography

in general stressed on the traits of decentralized fragmented policy during the

period under discussion, which itself pointed to certain structural changes in

the political life of the country.The salient feature of the Marxist approach is to

identify the institution of ‘land-grants’ as the principal agents of change

bringing in parcellised sovereignty.In this perspective the early medieval period

is equated with feudal polity.This explains the multiplicity of political powers in

India, especially during the early medieval period.

The feudal model was largely constructed on the basis of Puranic and

Epigraphic data pertaining mostly to North India and so it is criticized by

another model.The’Segmentary State’ drawing information from a large body of

South Indian Inscriptions.Although, feudal and segmentary models are

mutually critical of each other, there is a commonality in their approaches.Both

models emphasis’ on the fragmented political authority and therefore argued for

political crisis and ritual sovereignty

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