Author | : Associate Professor of History and Archaeology of the Indian World Valérie Gillet |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0197757715 |
Minor Majesties studies the small ancient kingdom of Pa?uvūr, active between the ninth and the eleventh centuries C.E. in the modern South-Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Author Valérie Gillet extensively surveys four temples dedicated to the god Śiva that were built during this period, combining in-depth analyses of their materiality, their location, and their epigraphy. Through these, Gillet provides a better understanding of the complexities related to temple sponsorship, organisation, and functioning as well as how these religious monuments became a place for the fabrication of political discourses and powers, specific social configurations, and religious practices.Â