The Heirs of Vijayanagara Court Politics in Early Modern South India

• Glavni avtor: Bes, Lennart (auth)
• Format: Elektronski Book Chapter
• Jezik: angleščina
• Izdano: Leiden Leiden University Press 2022
• Serija: Colonial and Global History through Dutch Sources 5
• Teme: Asian history; Politics & government; India; South Asia, India, kingship, courts, modern history, diplomacy, political history
• Online dostop: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Izvleček

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.

Fizični opis

1 electronic resource (596 p.)

ISBN

9789087283711

Dostop

Open Access