Politics, Kingship, and Poetry in Medieval South India
Moonset on Sunrise Mountain
Cox, Whitney
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Cambridge, UK
Cambridge University Press
2016
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xv, 309 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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.
1 Rājiga, before 1070 2 Rājendracoḷa, June 1070-May 1074 3 Kulottuṅga: The King and the Poets, ca. 1087-1115 4 The Emperor of the Three Worlds and the Lord of the Little Shrine
Whitney Cox, University of Chicago.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-296) and index.
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Asia -- History
India, South
History
India, South
Politics and government
India, South
Kings and rulers
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