RT Book
T1 Polemics and patronage in the city of victory: Vyāsatīrtha, Hindu sectarianism, and the sixteenth-century Vijayanagara Court
T2 South Asia across the disciplines
A1 Stoker, Valerie 1969-
LA English
PP Oakland, California
PB University of California Press
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1621160432
AB "How did the patronage activities of the Vijayanagara Empire (c. 1346-1565) influence Hindu sectarian identities? Contrary to most portraits of the empire as a Hindu bulwark against Islamic incursion from the north or as a religiously ecumenical state, in Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory, Valerie Stoker argues that the Vijayanagara court was selective in its patronage of religious institutions. But the motivations behind this selectivity were not always religious. 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 Vyāsatīrtha. An agent of the state and a powerful religious authority, Vyāsatīrtha played an important role in expanding the empire's economic and social networks. By examining Vyāsatīrtha's 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 socio-political reality under Vijayanagara rule"--Provided by publisher
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BL1153.2
SN 978-0-520-29183-6
K1 Vyāsatīrtha 1460-1539 : Influence : Vyāsatīrtha 1460-1539 : 1500-1599
K1 Hinduism and state : History : 16th century : India : Vijayanagar (Empire)
K1 Hinduism and state
K1 Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
K1 Religion
K1 Vijayanagar (Empire) : Religion : 16th century : Asia : Vijayanagar (Empire) : History