Sangama : A Confluence of Art and Culture During the Vijayanagara Period
Contents: Preface. 1. Vijayanagara: the end or the beginning?/Robert L. Brown. 2. Recent excavations in Vijayanagara: a word heritage site/M.S. Nagaraja Rao. 3. Transformations in religion and art during the Vijayanagara Period/Choodamani Nandagopal. 4. Temple Pillars: their evolution and style under Vijayanagara and its successor/Anila Verghese. 5. Temple tourism in Karnataka: some late Chalukyan Temples/Gerard Foekema. 6. The politics of Royal Gifting at Vijayanagara/Nalini Rao. 7. Being in love with God is not enough: social reform by Basavanna through Bhakti/Deepak Shimkhada. 8. Contribution of the Vijayanagara Kings to the study of the Vedas/S.R. Rao. 9. Cosmology and sacred architecture in India/Subhash Kak. 10. Cultural heritage planning of sacred sites: a case study of Rockfort Temple at Tiruchirapalli, India/Aparna Raghunathan and Amita Sinha. 11. A Sangama of architectural styles: the Vidyashankara Temple/Indu Parthasarathy. Select bibliography/Nalini Rao. Contributors/Vatsa Kumar.
"Sangama: A confluence of Art and Culture During the Vijayanagara Period explores the complex interaction among multiple social and cultural forces between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries in South India. It contains studies which are on Vijayanagara in particular using archaeological, architectural, inscriptional and textural sources and those which are broader in nature that suggest a complex interweaving of influences.
This publication has been brought out in conjunction with the seminar Sangama: a Confluence of Art and Culture During the Vijayanagara Period, to be held in Houston and Los Angeles in November 2005."
