... data on Chola art, searching out temples and reinterpreting inscriptions. Because many temples, originally built in brick, were rebuilt in stone during the Chola period, and older inscriptions either reincorporated into the new fabric or copied over in the older style, this work has been a labor...

... The most comprehensive discussion can be found in Vidya Dehejia, Art of the Imperial Cholas (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990). Breaking from the chronological framework, chapter 8 looks diachronically at evolving forms of Buddhist, Vaishnava, and goddesses imagery. Although the Cholas...

...Pramod Chandra Early Chola Art. Part I . By S. R. Balasubrahmanyam . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1967 . xxiii, 265 pp. Glossary of Technical Terms, Maps, Sketches, Plans, Illustrations. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 514...

...Padma Kaimal Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 Rajarajesvaram: The Pinnacle of Chola Art . By B. Venkataraman . Madras : Mudgala Trust , 1985 . xx, 393 pp. $36.00. Art of the Imperial Cholas . By Vidya Dehejia . New York : Columbia University...

..., Ceylonese, and Western scholars. The purpose of this paper is to examine the more abrasive side of the Indian–Ceylonese relationship during the eleventh century, when the imperial Chola kings of southern India sent invading armies into Ceylon, bent upon occupation and plunder. A more general aim...

...James Heitzman Abstract The Tamil country of South India experienced a flowering of political, economic, and cultural forces during the Chola period (849–1279). The environments supporting this expansion were nucleated settlements focused on temples, surrounded by verdant paddy fields...

... M A N . Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. xiv, 277 pp. $35.00 (cloth). The rich inscriptional record coming down to us from the Chola dynasty (c. 850 1280 A.D.) has made it a particularly fertile ground for debate on the nature of early BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1203 medieval polity in India...

... were all previously published separately, but together in this form they better illustrate the author's themes of inquiry. Karashima attempts through an analysis of inscriptions of the Chola, Pandya, and Vijayanagar periods to gauge the extent of social and economic change in Tamil-speaking areas. He...

... N. , Pre-Pallavan Tamil Ind ( Madras : Univ. of Madras , 1966 ), p. 628 . Also his Śagam Polity: The Administration and Social Life of the ᕺangam Tamils (Madras: Asia Publishing House, 1966), pp. 112–13, in which he points out that the major mandalams were of the Cholas Chēras...

... extensive use of computers and statistical methods. The present essays were all previously published separately, but together in this form they better illustrate the author's themes of inquiry. Karashima attempts through an analysis of inscriptions of the Chola, Pandya, and Vijayanagar periods to gauge...

... some examples of how polities in India and China attempted to exert power over the maritime trading networks, sometimes resulting in naval confrontations. The first case relates to the Chola naval expedition against the Sriwijayan kingdom in Southeast Asia in 1025. The second example concerns the Ming...

... York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 305 pp. $45.00 (cloth). This book, by focusing closely on inscriptions from the Chola period (950 1250), reexamines our received images of the devadasi in medieval India. Leslie Orr attempts to overturn both the reformist image of the tevaratiyar (Tamil), or temple...

... India. That region, where the modern states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu now converge, was the homeland of the Nolamba dynasty whose authority was circumscribed by their more powerful neighbors, the Cholas, Pallavas, Chalukyas, and Rashtrakutas. Previous scholarship has framed art...

... careful attention than they have as yet received. Balasubrahmanyam, the father of this active family, has spent a lifetime collecting data on Chola art, searching out temples and reinterpreting inscriptions. Because many temples, originally built in brick, were rebuilt in stone during the Chola period...

... and foci. EUGENE F. IRSCHICK University of California, Berkeley Art of the Imperial Cholas. By VIDYA DEHEJIA. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. xv, 148 pp. $32.50. Rajarajesvaram: The Pinnacle of Chola Art. By B. VENKATARAMAN. Madras: Mudgala Trust, 1985. xx, 393 pp. $36.00. The four centuries...

... over the past fifteen years, primarily on South Indian sculpture of the Chalukya and Chola periods. Lippe came to the Indian field from his earlier research on Chinese art; he was formerly in the Department of Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and has written the catalogue of the small...

... in the central highlands of southern India. That region, where the modern states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu now converge, was the homeland of the Nolamba dynasty whose authority was circumscribed by their more powerful neighbors, the Cholas, Pallavas, Chalukyas, and Rashtrakutas. Previous...

... the Chola period (950 1250), reexamines our received images of the devadasi in medieval India. Leslie Orr attempts to overturn both the reformist image of the tevaratiyar (Tamil), or temple woman, as exploited prostitute, as well as the revisionist portrayal of her as an embodiment of ritual auspiciousness...

... picture." Shulman's logic is largely associational, and sometimes one wonders how well founded certain associations are. For instance, in his introduction, Shulman discusses an inscription left by VIrarajendra Chola (1063 1069), which describes the founding of the Chola kingdom and also alludes to a well...

... whole "later Chola period," beginning from the reign of Kulottunga i (A.D. 1070-1120), this volume admirably condenses a complex record, surveying sixteen additional temples beyond Laddigam. Perhaps most importantly, the author lays out evidence for the development, in this period, of the multiple...