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072		7	_aHRA _2bicssc
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100	1		_aStoker, Valerie _4auth
245	1	0	_aPolemics and Patronage in the City of Victory: Vyasatirtha, Hindu Sectarianism, and the Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara Court
260			_aOakland, California _bUniversity of California Press _c2016
300			_a1 electronic resource (230 p.)
506	0		_aOpen Access _2star _fUnrestricted online access
520			_aHow did the patronage activities of India’s Vijayanagara Empire (c. 1346–1565) influence Hindu sectarian identities? Although the empire has been commonly viewed as a Hindu bulwark against Islamic incursion from the north or as a religiously ecumenical state, Valerie Stoker argues that the Vijayanagara court was selective in its patronage of religious institutions. To understand the dynamic interaction between religious and royal institutions in this period, she focuses on the career of the Hindu intellectual and monastic leader Vy?sat?rtha. An agent of the state and a powerful religious authority, Vy?sat?rtha played an important role in expanding the empire’s economic and social networks. By examining his polemics against rival sects in the context of his work for the empire, Stoker provides a remarkably nuanced picture of the relationship between religious identity and sociopolitical reality under Vijayanagara rule.
540			_aCreative Commons _fhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ _2cc _4https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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650		7	_aHistory _2bicssc
650		7	_aAsian history _2bicssc
650		7	_aReligion: general _2bicssc
650		7	_aOther non-Christian religions _2bicssc
653			_avyasatirtha
653			_ahinduism
653			_avijayanagar empire
653			_aAdvaita Vedanta
653			_aBrahmin
653			_aDvaita Vedanta
653			_aMatha
653			_aMoksha
653			_aSectarianism
653			_aSmarta tradition
653			_aSringeri
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