The portrayal of underlings in Eastern Cālukya copper plates: textual analysis data with revised codebook

This is a textual analysis dataset derived from Eastern Cālukya copperplate grants. The second version of 24 April 2024 contains a slightly revised codebook (in DOC and PDF formats with identical contents) in addition to the earlier dataset. This revision is essentially identical to that reflected in the "Revised tag" column of the dataset, except that many definitions have been made clearer and tidier, and a small number of intermediate-level categories have been added for better hierarchisation. The codes in use have not been altered.

The data accompany the following forthcoming publications (title and date of publication subject to change):

Balogh, Dániel (forthcoming 2024), 'The portrayal of underlings in Eastern Cālukya copper plates'. In: Self-Representation and Presentation of Others in Indic Epigraphical Writing, edited by Annette Schmiedchen and Dániel Balogh. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Balogh, Dániel (forthcoming 2024). ‘Textual Analysis Methodology and Royal Representation in Copperplate Grants’. In Bhūtārthakathane ... Sarasvatī: Reading Poetry as a History Book, edited by Marco Franceschini, Chiara Livio, and Lidia Wojtczak. Studies on the History of Śaivism. Naples: UniorPress.

The former publication introduces the method sketched out on the introductory page of this dataset and studies a particular topic through this methodology, while the latter discusses the method in more detail. An account of the technical details is in preparation by Balogh.

This dataset, the underlying research and the relevant publications are results of the project DHARMA ‘The Domestication of “Hindu” Asceticism and the Religious Making of South and Southeast Asia’. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no 809994).