Title Architecture of sovereignty : stone bodies, colonial gazes, and living Gods in South India / Gita V. Pai

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023 ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 355 pages) : illustrations, maps Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 28, 2023) Subject Maturai Aruḷmiku Mīṉāṭci Cuntarēsvarar Ālayam. Pudu Maṇḍapam. SUBJECT Maturai Aruḷmiku Mīṉāṭci Cuntarēsvarar Ālayam fast Subject Architecture and society -- India -- Madurai Art and society -- India -- Madurai Architecture -- Political aspects -- India Art -- Political aspects -- India LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Architecture and society Architecture -- Political aspects Art and society Art -- Political aspects India India -- Madurai Form Electronic book LC no. 2022022775 ISBN 9781009150163 1009150162 1009174770 9781009174770

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