Author : Anila Verghese
Publisher : OUP India
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 2011-01-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780198068617
This volume presents a comprehensive account of the Vijayanagara Empire and Hampi-Vijayanagara site through a study of archaeology, photography, painting, sculptures, inscriptions, coinage, conservation and heritage, and existing scholarship.
Author : Kallidaikurichi Aiyah Nilakanta Sastri
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 39,62 MB
Release : 1958
Category : India
ISBN :
Author : Henry Heras
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 2003-07-01
Category :
ISBN : 9788170203773
Author : Henry Heras
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 38,82 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Hampi (India)
ISBN :
Author : Domingos Paes
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 10,82 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Vijayanagar (Empire)
ISBN : 9788120606845
Written About A.D. 1520 To 1522 And A.D. 1535 To 1537 Respectively.
Author : Carla M. Sinopoli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139440745
The study of specialized craft production has a long tradition in archaeological research. Through analyses of material remains and the contexts of their production and use, archaeologists can examine the organization of craft production and the economic and political status of craft producers. This study combines archaeological and historical evidence from the author's twenty years of fieldwork at the imperial capital of Vijayanagara to explore the role and significance of craft production in the city's political economy of the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. By examining a diverse range of crafts from poetry to pottery, Sinopoli evaluates models of craft production and expands upon theoretical and historical understandings of empires in general and Vijayanagara in particular. It is the most broad-ranging study of craft production in South Asia, or in any other early state empire.
Author : George Michell
Publisher : Blue Guides Limited
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 36,74 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780393317480
A new titles in the BLUE GUIDE series covers the increasingly popular tourist destination of Southern India, starting with Bombay. Divided into chapters that focus on the main towns and sites, with ideas for additional excursions off the beaten track, this is one of the most comprehensive guidebooks available to the area. 90 maps and plans. 30 drawings.
Author : Burton Stein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,8 MB
Release : 2005-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521619257
The Vijayanagara rajas ruled a substantial part of the southern peninsula of India for over three hundred years, beginning in the mid-fourteenth century. During this epoch the region was transformed from its medieval past toward a modern colonial future. Concentrating on the later sixteenth- and seventeenth-century history of Vijayanagara, this book details the pattern of rule established in this important and long-lived Hindu kingdom that was followed by other, often smaller kingdoms of peninsular India until the onset of colonialism. Through an analysis of the politics, society, and economy of Vijayanagara, the author addresses the central question of the extent to which Vijayanagara, as a medieval Hindu kingdom, can be viewed as a prototype of the polities and societies confronted by the British in the late eighteenth century. The book thus presents an understanding and appreciation of one of the great medieval kingdoms of India as well as a more general assessment of the nature of the state, society, and culture on the eve of European colonial rule.
Author : Rajmohan Gandhi
Publisher : Rupa
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 48,13 MB
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789388292221
The South India story attempted here is of a peninsular region influenced by the oceans, not by the Himalayas. Yet it is more than that. It is a story of facets of four powerful culturesKannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu, to name them in alphabetical orderand yet more than that, for Kodava, Konkani, Marathi, Oriya and Tulu cultures have also influenced it, as also other older and possibly more indigenous cultures often seen as tribal, as well as cultures originating in other parts of India and the world. With South Indias Malayalam region being (in modern times) the most balanced in terms of religion and also the most literate, its Kannada zone occupying South Indias geographical centre and containing the sites of the Vijayanagara kingdom and also the kingdom of Haidar and Tipu, its Telugu portion the largest in area and holding the most people, and its Tamil part the most Dravidian and possessing the oldest literature, the four principal cultures are, unsurprisingly, competitive. But they are also complementary. This is a Dravidian story, and also more than that. It is a story involving four centuries, the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth, yet other periods intrude upon it...
Author : Valerie Stoker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,36 MB
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0520965469
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How did the patronage activities of India’s Vijayanagara Empire (c. 1346–1565) influence Hindu sectarian identities? Although the empire has been commonly viewed as a Hindu bulwark against Islamic incursion from the north or as a religiously ecumenical state, Valerie Stoker argues that the Vijayanagara court was selective in its patronage of religious institutions. To understand the dynamic interaction between religious and royal institutions in this period, she focuses on the career of the Hindu intellectual and monastic leader Vyasatirtha. An agent of the state and a powerful religious authority, Vyasatirtha played an important role in expanding the empire’s economic and social networks. By examining his polemics against rival sects in the context of his work for the empire, Stoker provides a remarkably nuanced picture of the relationship between religious identity and sociopolitical reality under Vijayanagara rule.
