Proceedings of the Indian History Congress - 40th Session, Andhra Pradesh University, Waltair - 1979

General President's Address/G.H. KhareSECTION I : ANCIENT INDIA :Presidential Address/D.N. Jhaa. Political and Administrative History :1. Concept of Hierarchy and Power in thy Ancient Indian Theory of Society and State/Om Prakash2. Hierarchy and Ethical Theory in Ancient India/Atul Kumar Sinha3. The Early Capitals of the Imperial Rashtrakutas/H.S. Thosar4. Pururava's Pratistthana/O.P. Bharadwaj5. A New Light on Albiruni's Travel in India/J.S. Mishra6. Murder and Punishment Under the Cholas/Mrs. V. Balambal7. Three Capital Towns of the Hoysalas/Om Prakash Prasadb. Social and Economic History :8. Yogini Cult in Orissa/Biswarup Das9. Leather Workers in Ancient and Early Medieval India/Vivekanand Jha10. The Designation Mleccha for Foreigners in Early India/Aloka Parasher11. Some Aspects of Women's Economic Position in the Rgveda/H.C. Satyarthi12. The Chola Temples and its Privileges/B.K. Pandeya13. Differences Between Bronze Age and Iron Age Cities of Ancient India : An Analysis/Vijay Kumar Thakur14. Janapada Settlements in the Arthasastra/Muralidharan M15. A Study of Castes in Rajasthan (From 700-1200 A.D.)/K.C. Jain16. Some Aspects of Early Medieval Brahman Village Legal Codes of Kerala/Rajan Gurukkal17. Blacksmiths in Ancient and Early Medieval India/A.P. Ojha18. An Analysis of the Abhijnana Sakuntala Evidence on the Condition of the Lowly Castes/Raghavendra Vajpeyi19. A Verse of the Rig Veda Vis a Vis Jaganatha of Puri/Asim Kumar Datta20. Radha Madhava Sub-sect in Eastern India/Pranabananda Jash21. The Temple-Base of the Bhakti Movement in South India/Kesavan Vehithat22. Institution of Agrahara in Maharashtra/G.B. Deglurkar23. The Role of Merchant Guilds in the Urbanization of South India/K.P. Velayudhan24. Hydraulic Agriculture in Peninsular India (C. 300 B.C. - 1300 A.D.)/Nand Kishore Kumar25. Chanakya on Prostitution (Based on, Arthasastra)/G. Kuppuram26. An Inscribed Sculpture from North Bengal/Mihir Mohan Mukhopadhyay27. Mahatma Basaveavara -A Social Reformer/M.V. SahasrabudheSECTION II : MEDIEVAL INDIA :Presidential AddressWas There Feudalism in Indian History ?/Harbans Mukhiaa. Political and Administrative History :28. Role of the North West Frontier Governors in the Court Politics During 13th and 14th Centuries/G.D. Gulati29. New Light on the Circumstances Leading to Bairam Khan's Defeat at Machiwara: Akbar's Unpublished Letter to the Commandant of Multan/M.A. Khalid30. Two Madad-i-Ma'ash Farmans of Aurangzeb from Awadh/Sayyid Zaheer Husain Jafri31. Kalimat-i-Aurangeb : A Source of Aurangzeb's Reign/S.M. Azizuddin Husain32. Mines, Mints and Their Administration in the Suba of Ajmer/Sunita Budhwar33. Ports and Harbours of Shivaji's Kingdom/B.G. Tamaskar34. Shivajj-Mughal Relations - 1669-80 : Gleanings from Some Unpublished Persian Records/G.T. Kulkarni35. Glimpses of Stventeenth Century India from Contemporary Maps and Travel Accounts/P.L. Saswadkar36. The Growth of Timur's Authority and His Relations with Nobility/S. Jamaluddinb. Social and Economic History :37. Distribution of Population and Agricultural Geography in Suba Agra-A study of the Ain's Revenue Statistics/K.K. Trivedi38. Taxation, Prices and Wages at Agra - 1703-4 and 1709-10/B.L. Bhadani39. Portuguese Trade with India and the Theory of Royal Monopoly in the Sixteenth Century/K.S. Mathew40. Revenue Statistics of Bihar During Mughal Period/Ahmad Raza Khan41. The Chalebi Merchants at Surat 16th-18th Centuries/Mohd.Afzal Khan42. Matrilini and Malabar Muslims/S.M. Mohamed Koya43. Indigenous Banking and the State in the Eastern Rajasthan During the Seventeenth Century/G.D. Sharma44. The Jagirdari System of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in The Light of His Orders/Indu Banga45. A Note on the Textile Technology in Medieval South India/Vijaya Ramaswamy46. Margin-Painting in Medieval Indian Art/S.P. Verma47. Du Jardin Papers, A Valuable Source for The Economic History of Northern India - 1778-87/S. Nurul Hasan48. Agrarian Change in Farrukhabad District, Late 18th and First.…