edited ramakrishna somasundara rao rajendra (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. maps, plates (illustrator). Contents Preface Acknowledgements I TransitionC Somasundara Rao II Age of regional powers 1 The Chalukyas of KalyanaKS Kameswara Rao 2 The Chalukya CholasJ Durga Prasad 3 The Velanati ChodasV Sundararama Sastry 4 The Haihayas of PalanaduV Sundarama Sastry 5 The Telugu Chodas of NelloreCA Padmanabha Sastry 6 The YadavarayasD Kirankranth Choudary 7 The Kandur ChodasNS Ramachandra Murthy 8 Chalukya Lineages in Vengi DesaK Suryanarayana 9 The later Gangas AD 1038-1327CV Ramachandra Rao 10 Historical GeographyNS Ramachandra Murthy and N Krishna Reddy III Kakatiya Supremacy and unification of Andhra 1 The KakatiyasPV Parabrahma Sastry 2 Kakatiya Polity and nature of the stateI Lakshmi 3 The law and legal institutionsPV Parabrahma Sastry and NS Ramachandra Murthy IV Society and economy 1 Society and economy of TelanganaB Pramila 2 Society and economy of VengidesaAruna Pariti 3 Society and economy of Rayalasima and NelloreN Krishna Reddy 4 Society and economy in KalingaNS Ramachandra Murthy 5 Temple economyKS Kameswara Rao and K Suryanarayana 6 UrbanizationAruna Pariti 7 CoinageG Kamalakar V Matrix of culture 1 SaivismD Kiran Kranth Choudary 2 VaishnavismO Sambaiah 3 JainismG Jawaharlal 4 Jainism in PerumbanappadiAR Ramachandra Reddy 5 Sakta and Tantric cultsN Krishna Reddy 6 Pilgrimage traditionB Rajendra Prasad D Kiran Kranth Choudary N Krishna Reddy and J Ramanaiah 7 Popular culturePS Kanaka Durga 8 MedicineP Hymavati 9 Evolution of the Telugu scriptPV Parabrahma Sastry and NS Ramachandra Murthy 10 Language and literatureNS Raju 11 Music and danceAnuradha Jonnalagadda 12 ArtD Kirankranth Choudary 13 Defence architectureNS Ramachandra Murthy 14 Temple architectureB Rajendra Prasad and A Gurumurthy Abbreviations Glossray IndexThe year AD 973 marked the rise of Kalyana Chalukya power in Andhra followed by a period of wars between the Kalyana Chalukyas and the Cholas of Thanjavur for over a century The decline of these powers made way for the rise of the Velanati Chodas the Nellore Chodas and the Kakatiyas in Andhradesa; the Yadavas in the upper Deccan; and the Hoysalas south of the Tungabhadra riverFrom the middle of the twelfth century the Kakatiyas became the dominant power and Warangal emerged as the premier cultural and political center The Kakatiyas consolidated their power by defeating defiant feudatories and bestowing administrative power on loyal subordinates and by entering into matrimonial alliances with the families of conquered local chieftains Under their rule different social groups migrated to the coastal Andhra region from the neighbouring Tamil Country resulting in the creation of new sub-sects Further social groups came to be named on the basis of local identity such as Pakanati and Velanati Brahmins the Penugonda Vaisyas and the Panta and Pakanati Reddis to mention a fewBased on a centralized bureaucracy the Kakatiya state could be broadly characterized as feudal The mainstay of the economy was agriculture and there was a substantial increase in irrigation facilities Trade flourished under a system of guilds and led to the growth of a number of urban centers The institution of the temple gained significance facilitated by royal patronage Buddhism witnessed a decline even as Sri Vaishnavism and Vira Saivism gained ground and Andhradesa came to be known as Trilinga the land of the three Saivite shrines at Kalesvaram Srisailam and DraksharamaIn architecture the Vesara mode flourished under the Kakatiyas while the Phamsana form was popular in the construction of monuments in the Telangana region In the field of language and literature the Telugu script underwent significant changes and classical Telugu literature developed with the translation of the Mahabharata by Nannaya Bhatta and the rise to eminence of several Telugu poets and writers 550 pp.