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Author_Jennifer Howes
Brihat Samhita
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Courtly Monuments
Domingo Paes
Durbar Hall
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george
indian
King's Bedroom
kingship
Mysore War
Navaratri Festival
palace
Palace Compound
Palace Space
Palace Towns
patterson
Pre-Colonial South India
Queen's Bath
Ritual Sovereignty
rock
Rock Fort
Segmentary State
shastra
South Indian Kingdoms
South Indian Kingship
Southern Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu
Temple Processions
towns
vastu
Vastu Shastra
Vijayanagara King
Word Mandala
Product details
- ISBN 9781138990449
- Weight: 550g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 03 Mar 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book investigates how the material culture of South Indian courts was perceived by those who lived there in the pre-colonial period. Howes peels away the standard categories used to study Indian palace space, such as public/private and male/female, and replaces them with indigenous descriptions of space found in court poetry, vastu shastra and painted representations of courtly life. Set against the historical background of the events which led to the formation of the Ramnad Kingdom, the Kingdom's material circumstances are examined, beginning with the innermost region of the palace and moving out to the Kingdom via the palace compound itself and the walled town which surrounded it. An important study for both art historians and South India specialists. The volume is richly illustrated in colour.
