The Courts of Pre colonial South India

The Courts of Pre colonial South India
Author: Jennifer Howes
Publsiher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2003
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0700715851

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This book investigates how the material culture of South Indian courts was perceived by those who lived there in the pre-colonial period. Howes peels away the standard categories used to study Indian palace space, such as public/private and male/female, and replaces them with indigenous descriptions of space found in court poetry, vastu shastra and painted representations of courtly life. Set against the historical background of the events which led to the formation of the Ramnad Kingdom, the Kingdom's material circumstances are examined, beginning with the innermost region of the palace and moving out to the Kingdom via the palace compound itself and the walled town which surrounded it. An important study for both art historians and South India specialists. The volume is richly illustrated in colour.

The Legal Profession in Colonial South India

The Legal Profession in Colonial South India
Author: John Jeya Paul
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1991
Genre: Lawyers
ISBN: UCAL:B3841675

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The persisting belief in the 'rule of law' and the relative judicial independence in post-colonial India, bear testimony to the British legacy with its unique amalgam of law codes, courts, procedures and personnel. Using sources previously unavailable to scholars, Paul traces the developmentof Indian laywyers, otherwise known as pleaders or vakils, since the beginning of British rule in the Madras Presidency.

Southern India

Southern India
Author: George Michell
Publsiher: Roli Books Private Limited
Total Pages: 622
Release: 2012-08-10
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9788174369031

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This comprehensive guide to Southern India’s varied heritage covers all the major Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and European historical monuments and sites in Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The descriptions vary from forts and palaces, and temple architecture, sculpture and painting, to mosques and tombs, and churches and civic buildings. The guide is divided into travel-friendly itineraries, accompanied by useful location maps. Some of the special features of this travel guide are: (1) The most comprehensive coverage of the region's cities and monuments, museums, and archaeological sites. (2) Includes all the major sites – the great port cities of Mumbai, Chennai and Kochi; the citadels of Golconda, Vijaynagara and Gingee; the rock-cut sanctuaries at Ajanta and Ellora; the temples at Badami, Halebid and Thanjuvar; the mosques of Hyderabad and Bijapur; and the cathedrals at Goa – and hundreds of less well-known places. (3) Detailed up-to-date practical information, with maps and archival photographs.

Sultans of the South

Sultans of the South
Author: Navina Najat Haidar,Marika Sardar
Publsiher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2011
Genre: Art, Indic
ISBN: 9781588394385

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Between the 14th and the 17th century, the Deccan plateau of south-central India was home to a series of important and highly cultured Muslim courts. Subtly blending elements from Iran, West Asia, southern India, and northern India, the arts produced under these sultanates are markedly different from those of the rest of India and especially from those produced under Mughal patronage. This publication, a result of a 2008 symposium held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, investigates the arts of Deccan and the unique output in the fields of painting, literature, architecture, arms, textiles, and carpet.

The Writings of Antoni de Montserrat at the Mughal Court

The Writings of Antoni de Montserrat at the Mughal Court
Author: João Vicente Melo
Publsiher: BRILL
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2023-08-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004471993

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This critical edition and translation of the Relaçam do Equebar, Rey dos Mogores (1582) and the Commentarius Mongolicae Legationis (1591), the first detailed European accounts on Mughal India written by Antoni de Montserrat, offers an updated and renewed reappraisal of the first Jesuit mission to the Mughal court (1580-1583). It also includes a reassessment of Montserrat’s career, highlighting his role both as a missionary and a diplomatic agent at the Mughal court

Body History Myth

Body  History  Myth
Author: Anna Lise Seastrand
Publsiher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2024-07-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780691258485

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The first major exploration of the mural tradition in early modern South India An astonishing variety of murals greet visitors to the temples and palaces of southern India. Beautiful in execution and extensive in scope, murals painted on walls and ceilings adorn the most important spaces of early modern religious and political performance. Scene by scene, histories of holy sites, portraits that incorporate historical figures into mythic landscapes, and Tamil and Telugu inscriptions that evoke the imagined topographies of devotional poetry unfold before the mobile spectator. Body, History, Myth reconceives the relationship between art and devotion in South India by describing how the extraordinary sensory experience of a viewing body in motion unfurls a sacred narrative exquisitely designed to teach, impress, and inspire. Anna Lise Seastrand offers new insights into the arts of early modern southern India, bringing to life one of the most culturally vibrant yet least understood periods in Indian art. She shows how temple visitors become active participants in the paintings through their somatic engagement with visual stories and devotional landscapes. Seastrand highlights the significance of textuality in early modern South Asia by examining the status of professional scribes and the prominence given to authorship of religious literature and art. Her insights are presented alongside new translations of the texts that accompany mural paintings. Featuring a wealth of stunning images published here for the first time, Body, History, Myth provides a multidimensional reading of temple art that fundamentally reframes the artistic, intellectual, religious, and political histories of early modern India.

Music in Colonial Punjab

Music in Colonial Punjab
Author: Radha Kapuria
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2023-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780192692924

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This book offers the first social history of music in undivided Punjab (1800-1947), beginning at the Lahore court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and concluding at the Patiala royal darbar. It unearths new evidence for the centrality of female performers and classical music in a region primarily viewed as a folk music centre, featuring a range of musicians and dancers -from 'mirasis' (bards) and 'kalawants' (elite musicians), to 'kanjris' (subaltern female performers) and 'tawaifs' (courtesans). A central theme is the rise of new musical publics shaped by the anglicized Punjabi middle classes, and British colonialists' response to Punjab's performing communities. The book reveals a diverse connoisseurship for music with insights from history, ethnomusicology, and geography on an activity that still unites a region now divided between India and Pakistan.

India before Europe

India before Europe
Author: Catherine B. Asher,Cynthia Talbot
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2022-09-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781108428163

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Second edition of the leading textbook on India's art, architecture, literature, religions, political and economic history, c. 1200 to 1750.