Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

1/1/1980 - 9/30/1982

Funding Totals

$65,000.00 (approved)
$65,000.00 (awarded)


Ritual, Diet, and Agriculture in Pre-Modern South India, 1400 to 1800

FAIN: RO-*0270-80

Institute for the Study of Human Issues (Philadelphia, PA 19104-3318)
Carol A. Breckenridge (Project Director: August 1979 to October 1990)

To support the study of a large body of stone inscriptions located at a major ceremonial center in southern India. The inscriptions cover a period of l,100 years and contain a complex record of sacred diet during the late-medieval period of Hindu history.