TY - BOOK ID - 85474210 TI - Politics, kingship and poetry in Medieval South India : Moonset on Sunrise Mountain PY - 2016 SN - 1316781747 1316781976 1316623629 1316771636 1316782204 131678312X 1316782433 1107172373 1316782891 1316780368 9781316783122 9781316782439 9781316771631 9781107172371 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - India KW - History. KW - Choòla dynasty, KW - India, South KW - Kings and rulers. KW - Civilization. KW - India, Southern KW - South India KW - Southern India UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85474210 AB - In 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. ER -