Architecture of sovereignty

• Verfasst von: Pai, Gita V. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Architecture of sovereignty
• Titelzusatz: stone bodies, colonial gazes, and living gods in South India
• Verf.angabe: Gita V. Pai
• Verlagsort: Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: [2023]
• Umfang: xx, 355 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-009-15015-6
• Schlagwörter: (g)Minakshitempel Madurai / (g)Indien <Süd> / (s)Heiligtum / (s)Architektur / (s)Gesellschaft / (z)Geschichte 1630-2023
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Pai, Gita V.: Architecture of sovereignty. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023. - 1 online resource (xx, 355 pages)
• Sach-SW: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• K10plus-PPN: 1811739539

Abstract

"Architecture of Sovereignty focuses on the Pudu Mandapam (in Tamil, 'new hall'), which is a Hindu structure in Madurai, a major pilgrimage town in Tamil Nadu. From various stages in South Indian history, the site has symbolically encoded the power of several regimes as far back as Nayaka rule in the seventeenth century. The proposed monograph 'reads' these layers of political power as embodied in aesthetic forms in and around the Pudu Mandapam. Relying upon sources including temple manuscripts and legends, physical architecture, sculptures, ritual, letters, travelogues, bronze models, paintings and drawings, photographs, tourism ephemera, and interviews, the narrative employs a multidisciplinary approach to illustrate how religious, economic, domestic, and foreign influences converge in shaping and conceptualizing the Pudu Mandapam as a place, and India as an object and problem of government. In so doing, it shows how the art and architecture of the Pudu Mandapam have been put to different uses towards diverse ends by ruling groups from early modern times to British colonialism to the postcolonial period"--