Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory

Vyasatirtha, Hindu Sectarianism, and the Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara Court

Valerie Stoker (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

230 Seiten

2016
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520291836 (ISBN)

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How did the patronage activities of India's Vijayanagara Empire (c. 1346-1565) influence Hindu sectarian identities? The author argues that the Vijayanagara court was selective in its patronage of religious institutions. She focuses on the career of the Hindu intellectual and monastic leader Vyasatirtha.

How did the patronage activities of India's Vijayanagara Empire (c. 1346-1565) influence Hindu sectarian identities? Although the empire has been commonly viewed as a Hindu bulwark against Islamic incursion from the north or as a religiously ecumenical state, Valerie Stoker argues that the Vijayanagara court was selective in its patronage of religious institutions. To understand the dynamic interaction between religious and royal institutions in this period, she focuses on the career of the Hindu intellectual and monastic leader Vyasatirtha. An agent of the state and a powerful religious authority, Vyasatirtha played an important role in expanding the empire's economic and social networks. By examining his polemics against rival sects in the context of his work for the empire, Stoker provides a remarkably nuanced picture of the relationship between religious identity and sociopolitical reality under Vijayanagara rule.

Valerie Stoker is Associate Professor of South Asian Religions and Director of the Master of Humanities Program at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Note on Transliteration and Translation 1. Hindu Sectarianism and the City of Victory 2. Royal and Religious Authority in Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara: A Ma?hadhipati at K?s?n?adevaraya's Court 3. Sectarian Rivalries at an Ecumenical Court: Vyasatirtha, Advaita Vedanta, and the Smarta Brahmins 4. Allies or Rivals? Vyasatirtha's Material, Social, and Ritual Interactions with the S'ri-vais?n?avas 5. The Social Life of Vedanta Philosophy: Vyasatirtha's Polemics against Visi??advaita Vedanta 6. Hindu, Ecumenical, Sectarian: Religion and the Vijayanagara Court Notes Bibliography Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.12.2016
Reihe/Serie	South Asia Across the Disciplines
Zusatzinfo	9 b-w, 6 maps, 1 line art
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-13	9780520291836 / 9780520291836
Zustand	Neuware