Empire inside out

• Verfasst von: Shacham, Ilanit Loewy [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Empire inside out
• Titelzusatz: religion, conquest, and community in Kṛṣṇadevrāya's Āmuktamālyada
• Verf.angabe: Ilanit Loewy Shacham
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: xiv, 245 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Karten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: AAR religion in translation
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-19-777622-3
• Schlagwörter: (t)Kṛṣṇadevarāya <Vijayanagar, König> / Āmuktamālyada
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: Asian history
• Sach-SW: Asiatische Geschichte
• Sach-SW: HIS062000
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia
• Sach-SW: Hinduism
• Sach-SW: Hinduismus
• Sach-SW: LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
• Sach-SW: Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik
• Sach-SW: Literature: history & criticism
• Sach-SW: Literary criticism
• K10plus-PPN: 1888066555

Abstract

Examining the interplay of religion, history, and literature through a case study of King Krsnadevaraya's celebrated Telugu poem ÄmuktamÄlyada, 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 ÄmuktamÄlyada 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 ÄmuktamÄlyada 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 ÄmuktamÄlyada, 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 ÄmuktamÄlyada, and to our contemporary times and the use of the text in constructing (at times rewriting) history

Abstract

"Regardless of terminology, the use of padya and gadya in Telugu literary works is invariably linked to Nannaya (early to mid-11th century), traditionally considered the first poet of Telugu literature. The style that Nannaya inaugurated in his Telugu retelling of the Mahābhārata is regarded as the paradigm for later poets. His mixing of padya and gadya-an element not present in the Sanskrit Mahābhārata-became the preferred mode of poetic composition, even when translating a Sanskrit counterpart that used padya exclusively"--