Empire Inside Out
Religion, Conquest, and Community in Kṛṣṇadevarāya's Āmuktamālyada
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 24 December 2024
- ISBN 9780197776223
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages260 pages
- Size 241x163x21 mm
- Weight 531 g
- Language English 565
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Short description:
Examining the interplay of religion, history, and literature through a case study of King Krsnadevaraya's celebrated Telugu poem Ä€muktamÄ-lyada, Ilanit Loewy Shacham showcases the groundbreaking worldview that this often-overlooked poem embodies. Krsnadevaraya (r.1509-1529) ruled over the Vijayanagara Empire during its heyday, and his monumental poem situates all power and authority not in the imperial center, but in the villages and temples at the empire's outskirts; not in the royal court, but in a religious community - a worldview radically different from how literary and political histories portray the king and his empire.
MoreLong description:
Examining the interplay of religion, history, and literature through a case study of King Krsnadevaraya's celebrated Telugu poem Ä€muktamÄ-lyada, Ilanit Loewy Shacham showcases the groundbreaking worldview that this often-overlooked poem embodies. Krsnadevaraya (r.1509-1529) ruled over the Vijayanagara Empire during its heyday, and his monumental poem situates all power and authority not in the imperial center, but in the villages and temples at the empire's outskirts; not in the royal court, but in a religious community - a worldview radically different from how literary and political histories portray the king and his empire.
Empire Inside Out explores the Ä€muktamÄ-lyada as a reflection of one of South Asia's most culturally complex periods, highlighting its rich religious, political, historical and ethnographic detail. Moreover, Loewy Shacham examines the Ä€muktamÄ-lyada as the work of a king imparting personal insights on empire, kingship, and individuality - specifically, that it is possible to be unbounded by the institution of kingship that he himself embodies. This book demonstrates that Krsnadevaraya's text connects the imperial domain to the village and temple settings, and to the south Indian community of Srivaisnava devotees-and indeed that it situates the source of authority and power not in the royal court but in the margins, where Srivaisnavism originated, giving the far Tamil south a central role in its imperial vision.
Employing close textual analysis of the Ä€muktamÄ-lyada, supplemented by a rich corpus of texts in different languages and genres, Empire Inside Out illuminates a piece of literature that has been fairly neglected, owing to the particularized linguistic and literary training required. The core of the book is based in the historical context of sixteenth-century Vijayanagara, from which it moves to the various pasts that helped shape the Ä€muktamÄ-lyada, and to our contemporary times and the use of the text in constructing (at times rewriting) history.
This book significantly contributes to the field of religious studies by inviting us to reconsider the seemingly clear-cut boundary between the political and religious domains in early modern India.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Genre and Empire: Beyond the Courtly Poem
2. Religion as Framework: Srivaisnavism Enters the Plot
3. Margins as Center: Poetics and Politics in the Ä€muktamÄ-lyada Geography
4. Expanding Literary Domains: Poetics of Fragments in the Imperial Whole
5. Conclusion: What Kind of Text is the Ä€muktamÄ-lyada, and What Is It About?
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