Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory : Vyasatirtha, Hindu Sectarianism, and the Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara Court /

Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory : Vyasatirtha, Hindu Sectarianism, and the Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara Court /

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"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 V...

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Main Author: Stoker, Valerie, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Vyāsatīrtha, > 1460-1539.
Vyāsatīrtha, > 1460-1539 > Influence.
Religion.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Hinduism and state.
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
Religion: general.
Religion and beliefs.
Regional and national history.
Other non-Christian religions.
Humanities.
History.
Asian history.
Hinduism and state > India > Vijayanagar (Empire) > History > 16th century.
Asia > Vijayanagar (Empire)
Vijayanagar (Empire) > Religion > 16th century.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Hindu sectarianism and the City of Victory
  • Royal and religious authority in sixteenth-century Vijayanagara: a Mahadhipati at Kadevaraya's court
  • Sectarian rivalries at an ecumenical court: Vyasatirtha, Advaita Vedanta, and the Smarta Brahmins
  • Allies or rivals? Vyasatirtha's material, social, and ritual interactions with the Srivaiavas
  • The social life of Vedanta philosophy: Vyasatirtha's polemics against Visiadvaita Vedanta
  • Hindu, ecumenical, sectarian: religion and the Vijayanagara court.

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