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020			_a9781107172371
082			_223 _a954.8 COX
100			_aCox, Whitney.
245		0	_aPolitics, Kingship, and Poetry in Medieval South India _b: Moonset on Sunrise Mountain _c/ Whitney Cox.
260			_aCambridge _b: Cambridge University Press _c,2016
300			_axv, 309. _c; 24 cm.
520			_aIn this compelling new study, Whitney Cox presents a fundamental re-imagining of the politics of pre-modern India through the reinterpretation of the contested accession of Kulottunga I (r.1070–1120) as the ruler of the imperial Chola dynasty. By focusing on this complex event and its ramifications over time, Cox traces far-reaching transformations throughout the kingdom and beyond. Through a methodologically innovative combination of history, theory and the close reading of a rich series of Sanskrit and Tamil textual sources, Cox reconstructs the nature of political society in medieval India. A major intervention in the fields of South Asian social, political and cultural history, religion and comparative political thought, this book poses fresh comparative and conceptual questions about politics, history, agency and representation in the pre-modern world.
650			_aHistory
650			_aKulottunga Chola king, 1070-1118.
650			_aocial change India History To 1500.
700			_aWhitney Cox.
942			_cRBK
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