Book Release: Self-Representation and Presentation of Others in Indic Epigraphical Writing

A blogpost by Daniel Balogh A little less than two years ago, DHARMA organised a panel called Self-Representation and Presentation of Others at the 34th Deutscher Orientalistentag, investigating the specific forms of “self-representation” of the issuers of inscriptions in a range of epigraphic texts from South Asia, focussing on political ideology as well as on patronage policy. In this connection, “self-representation” is not to be understood as the way in which particular persons (such as ...