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...Pamela Price Symbols of Substance: Court and State in Nāyaka Period Tamil Nadu . By Velcheru Narayana Rao , David Shulman , and Sanjay Subramanyam . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1992 . 4 maps, 16 photos, xix, 349 pp. $39.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...James Heitzman A Concordance of Nāyakas: The Vijayanagar Inscriptions in South India . By Noboru Karashima . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2002 . vii , 350 pp. $29.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 668 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

... competence that is needed to explore this theme in south India between the early sixteenth and the early eighteenth centuries. Nayaka was the title borne by the heads of the three successor states of the Vijayanagara Kingdom in Tamil country. The authors argue that the Nayakas were members of a Telugu...

... and Early History of Śaivism in South India . Madras : University of Madras . Narayana Rao V. , Shulman D. , and Subrahmanyam S. . 1992 . Symbols of Substance: Court and State in Nāyaka Period Tamilnadu . Delhi : Oxford University Press . Narayanan Vasudha . 1994...

.... The dissolution of the central political order with the demise of the Vijayanagara empire in the early seventeenth century and the subsequent collapse of the regional Nayaka rulers in the early eighteenth century meant at the same time that the smaller units in the political system, those at the ecological...

... to return to basics, to understand what the original inscriptions have to say within controlled parameters of time and space, before making generalizations. The first half of this work deals with problems of state formation by studying the behaviors of the military/political leaders called nayakas and other...

... of this work deals with problems of state formation by studying the behaviors of the military/political leaders called nayakas and other influential persons bearing high honorific titles. Karashima is able to demonstrate differences in the organization of power between the fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries...

... of, but do not explore, Nayaka absorption with heroic images and they do not expand on Nayaka preoccupation with the protection of honor. We hear of the shifting alliances of political engagement, but do not find discussion of war poetry which the court patronized or political analysis of reports of actual...

... instead only focus selectively on and translate entire texts by some central figures in Indian aesthetics (such as Bharata, Anandavardhana, Bhoja, Bhatta Nayaka, Abhinavagupta, and so on) and leave the others aside for the most part, though of course both approaches have their own place and value...

... some ninety years later (circa 1602) at the court of the Nayaka ruler of Madurai. The resultant reading in no way reduces the value of the text for historical purposes, but it changes it from eyewitness account to anachronistic historiographic representation. As interpreted by Wagoner, the unnamed...

... James . 1987 . “ State Formation in South India, 850–1280 .” Indian Economic and Social History Review 24 : 35 – 61 . Inden Ronald . 1985 . “ The Temple and the Hindu Chain of Being .” Purusartba 8 : 53 – 73 . Karashima Noboru . 1985 . “ Nayaka Rule in North and South Arcot...

... and undergraduate levels, diplomats, students and scholars of South Asia, and interested general readers. CHAITRAM J. TALELE Columbia State Community College A Concordance of Nayakas: The Vijayanagar Inscriptions in South India. By N O B O R U KARASHIMA. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002. vii, 350 pp. $29.95...

... Santwanam, an eighteenth-century Telugu erotic epic whose author, Muddupalani, was a courtesan attached to the court of the Tanjavur Nayaka ruler, Pratapasimha. The passages published here may be the earliest we have of female desire expressed by a female author. One hopes for a full translation soon...

... with Nayaka rulers, Hyder Ali, the Marathas, and then the British resulted in shifts of caste centers of employment, residence, and matha establishment. But the reader must construct his/her own charts to make these connections over time. The second and very explicit theme is that of the Saraswats' Smarta...

...) of the political recognition of their swami (pp. 9, 40) and hence, implicitly, the dependence of caste or sect boundaries on political boundaries. Material for this theme is found throughout the book. The Saraswats' successive employment with Nayaka rulers, Hyder Ali, the Marathas, and then the British resulted...

... of a connectedness that is based on shared common practice to gain power and protection. However, monks of the Buddha Nayaka council are not persuaded. The aforementioned present abbot of Upper Yedagone Monastery, recounted: “ Duwae is spirit belief, not Buddhism. The Duwae priest is a nat kadaw . But if we...

... conception of the central deity as a sovereign king” and the framework where “minor tutelary deities . . . could be conceived of as servants or nāyakas of the king” to do away with ambiguities considered too dangerous within the “Christian theological tradition on idolatry” (p. 213). Not without some...

... the description and analysis of Symbols of Substance: Court and State in Nayaka Period Tamil Nadu (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992), which Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman co-authored with Sanjay Subrahmanyam. Nonetheless, the introduction left me hungry for more. Especially after reading the poems, I...

... and analysis of Symbols of Substance: Court and State in Nayaka Period Tamil Nadu (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992), which Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman co-authored with Sanjay Subrahmanyam. Nonetheless, the introduction left me hungry for more. Especially after reading the poems, I...

... of Education, Baddiuddin Mahmud. The analysis of pressure groups is 216 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES generally excellent, but one wonders why the author condemns the Kandyan Maha Nayaka Theras as being "far from wise" while making no such comment about Gnanaseeha Thera. Looking at the electoral system, Professor...