Symbols of Substance: Court and State in Nayaka Period Tamilnadu

by David Dean Shulman, Velcheru Narayana Rao, Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Looking at the three major Nayaka states--ruled from Senji, Tanjavur, and MAadurai/Tiruccirapalli--as well as at minor states located at their periphery, this volume deals with the political culture of the NaAyaka period in medieval South India, an era which extends from the early sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century. Supplementing standard sources by an imaginative use of Dutch, Portugese, Tamil, Sanskrit, and Telugu sources, the authors...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195643992
• ISBN13: 9780195643992
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"