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    Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory: Vyasatirtha, Hindu Sectarianism, and the Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara Court

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    Author(s)
    Stoker, Valerie
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    Abstract
    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 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.
    URI
    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32076
    Keywords
    vyasatirtha; hinduism; vijayanagar empire; Advaita Vedanta; Brahmin; Dvaita Vedanta; Matha; Moksha; Sectarianism; Smarta tradition; Sringeri
    DOI
    10.1525/luminos.18
    ISBN
    9780520965461
    OCN
    959728089
    Publisher
    University of California Press
    Publisher website
    https://www.ucpress.edu/
    Publication date and place
    Oakland, California, 2016
    Classification
    History
    Asian history
    Religion: general
    Other non-Christian religions
    Pages
    230
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    Relevant Wikipedia pages: Advaita Vedanta - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advaita_Vedanta; Brahmin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin; Dvaita Vedanta - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvaita_Vedanta; Matha - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matha; Moksha - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moksha; Sectarianism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarianism; Smarta tradition - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smarta_tradition; Sringeri - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sringeri; Vijayanagara - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijayanagara; Vijayanagara Empire - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijayanagara_Empire
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    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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