TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stoker,Valerie
TI  - Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory: Vyasatirtha, Hindu Sectarianism, and the Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara Court 
T2  - South Asia Across the Disciplines
SN  - 9780520965461
AV  - BL1153.2 
U1  - 294.50954/809031 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Berkeley, CA : 
PB  - University of California Press, 
KW  - Hinduism and state
KW  - India
KW  - Vijayanagar (Empire)
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - academic
KW  - ally
KW  - ancient city
KW  - city of victory
KW  - empire
KW  - government
KW  - hindu
KW  - historical
KW  - india
KW  - indian government
KW  - indian history
KW  - indian politics
KW  - krishna river
KW  - military
KW  - polemics
KW  - political
KW  - religion
KW  - rival
KW  - rulers
KW  - scholarly
KW  - sectarian
KW  - social life
KW  - south india
KW  - translation
KW  - urban
KW  - vijayanagara empire
KW  - world history
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Note on Transliteration and Translation --; 1. Hindu Sectarianism and the City of Victory --; 2. Royal and Religious Authority in Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara: A Maṭhādhipati at Kṛṣṇadevarāya's Court --; 3. Sectarian Rivalries at an Ecumenical Court: Vyāsatīrtha, Advaita Vedānta, and the Smārta Brahmins --; 4. Allies or Rivals? Vyāsatīrtha's Material, Social, and Ritual Interactions with the Śrīvaiṣṇavas --; 5. The Social Life of Vedānta Philosophy: Vyāsatīrtha's Polemics against Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta --; 6. Hindu, Ecumenical, Sectarian: Religion and the Vijayanagara Court --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
N2  - A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How 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 Vyasatirtha. An agent of the state and a powerful religious authority, Vyasatirtha 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520965461?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780520965461
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780520965461/original
ER  -