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100	1		_aPai, Gita V. _eAuthor. _933449
245	1	0	_aArchitecture of sovereignty : _bstone bodies, colonial gazes, and living gods in South India / _cby Gita V. Pai. _hEnglish.
250			_a1st.
260			_aUnited Kingdom : _bCambridge University Press, _c2023.
263			_a2305
300			_axx, 355 p. _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
365			_b1495.00 _cRupees
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"Architecture of Sovereignty focuses on the Pudu Mandapam (in Tamil, 'new hall'), which is a Hindu structure in Madurai, a major pilgrimage town in Tamil Nadu. From various stages in South Indian history, the site has symbolically encoded the power of several regimes as far back as Nayaka rule in the seventeenth century. The proposed monograph 'reads' these layers of political power as embodied in aesthetic forms in and around the Pudu Mandapam. Relying upon sources including temple manuscripts and legends, physical architecture, sculptures, ritual, letters, travelogues, bronze models, paintings and drawings, photographs, tourism ephemera, and interviews, the narrative employs a multidisciplinary approach to illustrate how religious, economic, domestic, and foreign influences converge in shaping and conceptualizing the Pudu Mandapam as a place, and India as an object and problem of government. In so doing, it shows how the art and architecture of the Pudu Mandapam have been put to different uses towards diverse ends by ruling groups from early modern times to British colonialism to the postcolonial period"-- _cProvided by publisher.
610	2	0	_aMaturai Aruḷmiku Mīn̲āṭci Cuntarēsvarar Ālayam. _933450
610	2	0	_aPudu Maṇḍapam. _933451
650		0	_aArchitecture and society _zIndia _zMadurai. _933452
650		0	_aArt and society _zIndia _zMadurai. _933453
650		0	_aArchitecture _xPolitical aspects _zIndia. _933454
650		0	_aArt _xPolitical aspects _zIndia. _933455
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh _2bisacsh _918767
776	0	8	_iOnline version : _aPai, Gita V. _tArchitecture of sovereignty _dCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022 _z9781009150163 _w(DLC) 2022022775
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