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'Sharma's work is comprehensive in its treatment of this subject and his attention to detail meticulous and impressive. His careful annotations provide valuable insights and help us work toward a wider understanding of the complex social history of Chamba. The book, which is beautifully produced by Brill with good illustrations, sets a high standard for all those working on the later religious history of South Asia in general and the Indian Himalayas in particular.' Beatriz Cifuentes, University of Durham, The Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, March 2012 'In such a short space, I cannot do justice to the many fascinating questions that the book evokes. Giving a very detailed study in small-scale economic history of a Himalayan kingdom as well as general considerations on the part played by rituals in the construction of legitimacy, this book will appeal to a broad but demanding readership.' Veronique Bouillier, CNRS, Paris, The Indian Economic and Social History Review, 49,3 (2012)

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Mahesh Sharma, Fellow IIAS-Simla (1993-95) and Fulbright Senior Fellow (2007), teaches History at Panjab University, Chandigarh. He has published extensively on western-Himalayan religious and cultural history including The Realm of Faith: Subversion, Appropriation and Dominance in the Western Himalaya (2001).

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