State, power and religion in the Indo-Iranian borderlands and North-west India, c. 200 bc–ad 200

dc.contributor.author Ghosh, Suchandra
dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-27T01:54:35Z
dc.date.available 2022-03-27T01:54:35Z
dc.date.issued 2017-06-01
dc.description.abstract The Greek tradition of coinage was maintained by the Bactrians, Indo-Greeks, Śakas and Kushanas, ruling successively in the North-west from the second century bc to second century ad. On their coins, apart from the rulers themselves, appear the figures and names of several deities. These were Greek deities in the beginning, to whom Iranian and Indian deities went on being added. The paper traces this process in detail and examines how the rulers first seem to address, through their coins, only an elite Greek or Hellenised aristocracy and then the wider Iranic and Indian populations, through the medium of deities figured on their coins. There was simultaneously the objective of legitimation and glorification of the rulers themselves by the same means. Curiously, Buddhism so important in Gandhara sculpture has only a rare presence on these coins even under the Kushanas.
dc.identifier.citation Studies in Peoples History. v.4(1)
dc.identifier.issn 23484489
dc.identifier.uri 10.1177/2348448917693722
dc.identifier.uri http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2348448917693722
dc.identifier.uri https://dspace.uohyd.ac.in/handle/1/4323
dc.subject Bactrian Greeks
dc.subject Buddha
dc.subject Herakles
dc.subject Indo-Greeks
dc.subject Kushanas
dc.subject Kṛṣna
dc.subject Nana
dc.subject Śakas
dc.subject Śiva
dc.title State, power and religion in the Indo-Iranian borderlands and North-west India, c. 200 bc–ad 200
dc.type Journal. Article
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