The catalog of EFEO Publications includes works on a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences (archaeology, history, anthropology, literature, philology, etc.), centered on Asia, from India to Japan.
These publications address both specialists, and a wider public interested in Asian civilizations and societies.
A Study in Nayaka-Period Social Life:
Tiruppudaimarudur Paintings and Carvings
Collection : Collection Indologie
Collection's number: 116
Edition: EFEO, Institut français de Pondichéry (IFP)
Publication date: 2011
Status : Available
43,00 €
ISBN-13 : 9782855391083
ISSN : 0073-8352
Width : 21 cm
Height : 28 cm
Weight : 0,65 kg
Number of pages : 138
Distributor : EFEO Pondichéry Contact : shanti@efeo-pondicherry.org, distributeur online : scholarswithoutborders@gmail.com, distributeur Chennai : jibh.rkc@gmail.com
Geography : India
Language : English
Place : Pondichéry
Support : Papier
Abstract
The carvings and paintings of Tiruppudaimarudur bring ""flesh and blood"" to the ""dry bones"" of the published histories of the Madurai Nayakas. In an extraordinarily lively manner, they show us the culture and socio-economic life of almost every part of society, from the king to the common man. They are, as it were, the photographs of the era! The methodology followed in this book is almost entirely based on a careful and systematic analysis of the range and multiplicity of the styles of dress and ornament worn by the figures represented in the scenes that have been painted and sculpted on the five tiers of the temple's gopura. We can thus identify the people, determine their ranks and discern the relations between social groups, whether officials, administrators, soldiers or commoners. This study offers us a veritable mirror of Nayaka times.
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