Politics, Kingship, and Poetry in Medieval South India
：Moonset on Sunrise Mountain
Publication subTitle ：Moonset on Sunrise Mountain
Author： Whitney Cox
Publisher： Cambridge University Press
Publication year： 2016
E-ISBN: 9781316781975
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781107172371
Subject： K351.3 the history of the Middle Ages (7th century - 1757)
Keyword： 亚洲史
Language： ENG
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Politics, Kingship, and Poetry in Medieval South India
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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.
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