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oapen-20.500.12657-529342022-07-11T12:07:52Z The Heirs of Vijayanagara Bes, Lennart South Asia, India, kingship, courts, modern history, diplomacy, political history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJF Asian history bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1F Asia::1FK Indian sub-continent::1FKA India 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. 2022-02-18T14:01:03Z 2022-02-18T14:01:03Z 2022 book 9789087283711 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52934 eng Colonial and Global History through Dutch Sources application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789087283711_Bes.pdf https://www.lup.nl/publications/history/global-history/the-heirs-of-vijayanagara/ Leiden University Press LUP Academic 10.24415/9789087283711 10.24415/9789087283711 276c53fd-5f1d-4065-9fce-9628863ddca8 Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek 9789087283711 Dutch Research Council (NWO) LUP Academic 5 596 Leiden 317-51-010 open access
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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.
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