Politics, kingship and poetry in Medieval South India : Moonset on Sunrise Mountain / / Whitney Cox [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Cox Whitney
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 309 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 954/.802
• Soggetto geografico: India, South History; India, South Kings and rulers; India, South Civilization
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Nov 2016).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ConclusionsNotes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 over time, Cox traces far-reaching transformations throughout the kingdom and beyond. Through a methodologically innovative combination of history, theory and the close reading of a rich series of Sanskrit and Tamil textual sources, Cox reconstructs the nature of political society in medieval India. A major intervention in the fields of South Asian social, political and cultural history, religion and comparative political thought, this book poses fresh comparative and conceptual questions about politics, history, agency and representation in the pre-modern world.
• Altri titoli varianti: Politics, Kingship, & Poetry in Medieval South India
• Titolo autorizzato: Politics, kingship and poetry in Medieval South India
• ISBN: 1-316-78036-8; 1-316-78174-7; 1-316-78197-6; 1-316-62362-9; 1-316-77163-6; 1-316-78220-4; 1-316-78312-X; 1-316-78243-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910136603403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II