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Politics, kingship and poetry in Medieval South India : Moonset on Sunrise Mountain /
In this compelling new study, Whitney Cox presents a fundamental re-imagining of the politics of pre-modern India through the reinterpretation of the contested accession of Kulottunga I (r.1070-1120) as the ruler of the imperial Chola dynasty. By focusing on this complex event and its ramifications...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Note on the Transliteration and Presentation of Texts; Introduction; History; Politics; Philology; Plan of the Book; 1 Rājiga, before 1070; The Marumakaṉ; Epic and Cognomen; The Coḻa State, 985-1069: An Interpretive Sketch; The Mĕykkīrtti as Political Text; Vīrarājendra: Crisis and Revolution; Summary; 2 Rājendraco7a, June 1070-May 1074; Introduction; "His Sword and His Two Shoulders"; Scenes from Coḻa Tondaimandalam
- Adhirājendra's Tondaimandalam Mobilizations, 1070-1071Forging Rājendraco7a's Political Network, 1071-1073; Kolar: In the Court of the Vermillion Queen; Conclusion: "Lofty in His Families"; Summary; 3 KulottuEga: The King and the Poets, ca. 1087-1115; Introduction; BilhaGa's Double Game; Moonset on Sunrise Mountain; Time Warp and Incarnation; Conclusions; Summary; 4 The Emperor of the Three Worlds and the Lord of the Little Shrine; Introduction; Around the Little Shrine; Courtly Donors of KulottuEga's Time; Beyond the Three-Thousand: Cidambaram's Brahman Subculture; Conclusions; Summary