Dwarasamudra to Orugallu to Devagiri: Regions and Regionalism in Geo-cultural Permeation, Tenth to Fourteenth Centuries
摘要
TheGeo-cultural \i historiographicalDwarasamudra \i representationDevagiri \i of MedievalOrugallu \i India as a dark, stagnant and stationary has historically tarnished the image of an living civilizationCivilization of being in the arms of Morpheus by creating a perception of legendsLegends and myths by its orientalist certitude. In spite of attempts to deconstruct such propositions in recent decades by scholars many secondary sources on Medieval Indian history largely remain to be unchanged. The geo-culturalGeo-cultural \i permeation of “DeccanDeccan \i” as a unified cultural identity encompassing varieties of similarities through ideas and institutionsInstitutions \i explored under the Hoyasala-Kakatiya-YadavaYadava \i periods, i.e. from 1006–1346, 1083–1323 and 1187–1317 from DwarasamudraDwarasamudra \i to OrugalluOrugallu \i to DevagiriDevagiri \i respectively. The primary aim and objective of this chapter is to highlight the many variables that synchronized the distinctive regionalRegionalculture, history \i societies in the medieval history of India as history in transition and a history of transition. DeccanDeccan \i witnessed a period of progressive change from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries in contrast to a historiographical moribund entity. The Hoyasala-Kakatiya-YadavaYadava \i evolved political systems and networks, extended agrarian settlementsSettlements \i and commercial activities, constructed numerous sites and catered religious institutionsInstitutions \i. The growth of the regionalRegionalculture, history \i societies is the most significant and outstanding feature of the Medieval Indian world which commands prominent recognition. 800–1400 AD expressed the expansion in the territorial spread of “historic” society in India, a civilizational legacy in the form of monumental structures and exemplary written documents, it changed the course and differentiated in forms propelling agrarianAgrarian \i expansion and demographic increase. The diverse configurations synthesized local societies and their cultureCulture \i into a pan-IndicIndic \i identity.