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Anirudh Kanisetti

Bangalore, Hyderabad, New Delhi
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Covers:  History, Medieval India, Global History, Globalisation, Food, Trade
Public historian, author of #LordsOfEarthAndSea and #LordsOfTheDeccan: new histories of South India. Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar. Columnist @ThePrintIndia.

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Ayodhya isn’t new. Chola kings were probing temple scams a thousand years ago

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By Anirudh Kanisetti
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To see why, we have to picture what a great temple actually was in South India, around the year 1100. By this time, the Kaveri Valley was studded with rapidly growing temple complexes, ringed with lofty walls and gopurams, frequently with markets and residential layouts nearby. Surrounding them were hundreds of acres of prime agricultural real estate partitioned by mazes of canals, bushes, and trees into fields.
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How a jobs crisis helped Tibet become the centre of the Buddhist world

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By Anirudh Kanisetti
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What an elite Buddhist parampara did get you, though, was international demand. Tansen Sen, distinguished historian of India-China relations, studied this in his paper “The Revival and Failure of Buddhist Translations during the Song Dynasty”. From the early centuries CE onwards, various Asian kingdoms had actively sought experts to render Buddhist texts from Sanskrit into other languages.
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India’s water future is being built on myths about its medieval past

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By Anirudh Kanisetti
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These memories are in stark contrast to the idyllic tone of medieval inscriptions, which praise the courtly patrons of rainwater tanks, and describe prosperous surrounding farms, orchards, and temples. The designers and beneficiaries of medieval water systems were not the same as the people whose hands had built the tanks and canals — in much the same way as the people signing off on data centres today are not the ones whose water is being taken away.
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