The Heirs of Vijayanagara
"This comparative study investigates court politics in four kingdoms that succeeded the s outh Indian Vijayanagara empire during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: Ikkeri, Tanjavur, Madurai, and Ramnad. Building on a unique combination of unexplored Indian texts and Dutch archival records,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam
Leiden University Press
2022
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| Series: | Colonial and global history through Dutch sources.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This comparative study investigates court politics in four kingdoms that succeeded the s outh Indian Vijayanagara empire during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: Ikkeri, Tanjavur, Madurai, and Ramnad. Building on a unique combination of unexplored Indian texts and Dutch archival records, this research offers a captivating new analysis of political culture, power relations, and dynastic developments. In great detail, this monograph provides both new facts and fresh insights that contest existing scholarship. By highlighting their competitive, fluid, and dynamic nature, it undermines the historiography viewing these courts as harmonic, hierarchic, and static. Far from being remote, ritualised figures, we find kings and Brahmins contesting with other courtiers for power. At the same time, by stressing continuities with the past, this study questions recent scholarship that perceives a fundamentally new form of Nayaka kingship. Thus, this research has important repercussions for the way we perceive both these kingdoms and their 'medieval' precursors. " |
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| Item Description: | "Amsterdam University Press" Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Maps and Tables List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on Spelling and Citation Maps Introduction Historical Background Sources Historiography Structure Chapter 1. Foundations and Foundation Myths Vijayanagara Sangamas Saluvas, Tuluvas, and Aravidus Successor States Nayakas of Ikkeri Nayakas of Tanjavur Bhonsles of Tanjavur Nayakas of Madurai Setupatis of Ramnad Conclusions Chapter 2. Dynastic Successions Vijayanagara Sangamas and Saluvas Tuluvas Aravidus Successor States Nayakas of Ikkeri Nayakas of Tanjavur Bhonsles of Tanjavur Nayakas of Madurai Setupatis of Ramnad Conclusions Chapter 3. The Power of Courtiers Vijayanagara Sangamas and Saluvas Tuluvas Aravidus Successor States Nayakas of Ikkeri Nayakas of Tanjavur Bhonsles of Tanjavur Nayakas of Madurai Setupatis of Ramnad Conclusions Chapter 4. Court Protocol and Insults Vijayanagara Successor States Nayakas of Ikkeri Nayakas of Tanjavur Bhonsles of Tanjavur Nayakas of Madurai Setupatis of Ramnad Conclusions Chapter 5. Influences from Sultanate Courts Vijayanagara Successor States Nayakas of Ikkeri Nayakas of Tanjavur Bhonsles of Tanjavur Nayakas of Madurai Setupatis of Ramnad Conclusions Chapter 6. Mutual Relations Conclusion Epilogue Aravidus of Vijayanagara Nayakas of Ikkeri Nayakas of Tanjavur Bhonsles of Tanjavur Nayakas of Madurai Setupatis of Ramnad Sources and Literature Unpublished Sources Published Sources Secondary Literature Index |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (596 pages) illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9400604165 9789400604162 |