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The Heirs of Vijayanagara
Lennart Bes
其他書名
Court Politics in Early Modern South India
出版Manohar Publishers and Distributors, 2024-06-20
主題History / Modern / GeneralHistory / Asia / South / IndiaPolitical Science / GeneralPolitical Science / World / Asian
ISBN93942627099789394262706
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=PwBZ0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This comparative study investigates court politics in four kingdoms that succeeded the Vijayanagara empire during the 16th to 18th 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. This monograph provides, in great detail, 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 the recent scholarship that perceives a fundamentally new form of Nayaka kingship.